1890 Coca and its Therapeutic Application by Angelo Mariani

CHAPTER V.

OUR VARIOUS PREPARATIONS OF COCA.

MMEDIATELY after the importation of the Coca leaf into Europe, we conceived the plan, the outcome of the request of many physicians, of making- preparations from Coca. Vi7i Mariaiii. —Elixtr Mariaiii.—Pdte Mariani.—The Mariani.—Pastilles Mariaai,etc. (The author's name was kindly added to" his preparations by the medical profession,who had recognized the superiority of his products.) These different preparations had been used byourgreat est practitioners long before the discovery, or rather the application of Cocaine. The results obtained were marvelous,and the innumer able letters which were addressed to us by physicians who experimented with and used our products and rendered accounts in the medical journals in all parts of the world, would fill a large volume. Under the esteemed patronage of our greatest medical celebrities, our preparations are known all over the world; they have reached all classes of society and everywhere,in the large cities as in the small villages, men,women,chil dren,in fact, convalescents of all ages now know the name of the salutary plant, which it is and has been our effort to popularize,though strictly so according to the code of medical ethics and by those channels approved of by the entire medical profession.