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sleep.”* This fact was confirmed by Dr. Daniell in 1865, and it'led him ———— 
to suspect that kola nuts contain ‘some constituent analogous to “caffeine Jm 
ortheine. Theine was soon after obtained by Dr. Daniell from “cola i 
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nu is dise w T 
before the Pharmaceutieal Society in January 1865; "Dr." Attfield 
found that “a quantitative vje€— a- showed that’ the proportion 
^ of theine present in dried cola nuts is 2 per cent. gere 
* from +5 to 2*0, e tea from *6 t to 3° 5 parts in 100. 
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beverages probably by three-fourths of the human’ ‘race; and 
each contains the same active —— ne. ro these ese must 
* now be added cola nuts. The common astrin- 
gent principle tannin which | occurs in ‘coffee to the anne of 5; 
cent. and in tea to-15 per cent.; and which gives to tea amd coffee 
bey erages their pleasant A h taste, or entirel x in cola 
* nuts: b cola ute 7 GWANN PAN the dry - ; 
* somewhat resemble coffee, but differ | in wi Domi stag tannin; in 
o but little fatty matter, and in the Pune ‘of much — 
roh? 
^ ‘fa rther and more detailed bina f. kola nuts was made by 
E. Heckel and F. Schlagdenhauffen. in. 1883; An abstract of their 
paper is given in the Pharmaceutical Oe V., 584, vrbis. 
b al, an a 
of 120 pounds of seed annually. 
results obtained i in the West Indies. Mr. 
ihi din The trees grow about 40 feet in height, se ne 
ton yrodioe from 500 to 800 pods each crop. If oi px d contains on — 
a moderate calculation four seeds, and if we say 50 seeds to a quart, - 
"M a tree with 600 pods will give 50 quarts of nuts 1 twice a y 
00 quarts per tree per year. A qent of dry nuts will weigh a | 
ies * over r 14 Ib.—125 Ibs. a tree. A tree in full bearing, and under: 
» would probably a. 150 Ibs. of nuts a year.” 
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t Ont Eee, of the Cola-nut.—A new source of Theine by John Attfield, 
jt On E 1 ond Henkel and ehlagdenbanton 4 Mun tannin in cola nats to 
the extent of 1° '618 per cent. 
