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tea, milk-and-water, and even plain water, hot, tepid, 

 and cold, that such things may, at slightly different 

 temperatures, produce a more decided effect than even 

 large doses of Coca, if taken at about the temperature 

 of the body." 



The result of the investigations of these eminent 

 authorities, in connection with the physiological ex- 

 perimentations with cocaine, demonstrated to the world 

 of science that this drug was, at the very best, merely 

 a something in the line of the caffeine-bearing stimu- 

 lants, such as tea and coffee, and, next, that instead of 

 being of any value whatever, or of possessing any in- 

 herent quality whatever, it was positively inert, having 



"an action so slight as to preclude the idea of its 

 having any value, either therapeutically or popular;" 

 that it has no greater effect on the pulse than 



"tea, milk-and-water, or even plain water, hot, tepid 

 and cold;" that it 



"occasioned none of those subjective effects so fer- 

 vidly described and ascribed to it by others not the 

 slightest excitement, nor even the feeling of buoyancy 

 and exhilaration which is experienced from mountain 

 air, or a draught of spring water." 



In this connection, it may be added that Professor 

 Roberts Bartholow, M. D., accepted that "it acts like 

 theine and caffeine as an indirect nutrient," etc. 

 (Therapeutic Gazette, July, 1880.) (564.) 



Just at that time the American "New Remedy" 

 craze of the 70's was at its height. Among the sub- 

 stances eulogized was coca, which had received a posi- 

 tion in the Prices Current of all the American manu- 

 facturing pharmaceutical establishments, as well as 



