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Description:Excerpt from The Practitioner, Vol. 34: A Journal of Therapeutics and Public Health; January to June Cocaine or Cucaine, the local anaesthetic, which has during the last few months obtained so great a notoriety, is obtained from the leaves of a South American plant called Erythroxylon Coca. The properties of the leaves of this plant have given rise to descriptions as celestial as those of De Quincey on opium. Mantegazza says "God is unjust for having made man live without coca; I would prefer a life of ten years with coca to one of ten thousand centuries without." The first account of its uses is from the writings of Tsehudi in 1838; he says that the natives of Chili and Peru commence the use of it when quite young, and continue it till old age, preferring hunger to loss of coca. An Indian servant, sixty-two years old, worked day and night for five days, with the exception of two hours sleep daily, at a difficult task, with no food except that procured by the chewing of coca. This statement is corroborated by the experience of all the earlier writers on this subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Practitioner, Vol. 34: A Journal of Therapeutics and Public Health; January to June (Classic Reprint). To get started finding The Practitioner, Vol. 34: A Journal of Therapeutics and Public Health; January to June (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from The Practitioner, Vol. 34: A Journal of Therapeutics and Public Health; January to June Cocaine or Cucaine, the local anaesthetic, which has during the last few months obtained so great a notoriety, is obtained from the leaves of a South American plant called Erythroxylon Coca. The properties of the leaves of this plant have given rise to descriptions as celestial as those of De Quincey on opium. Mantegazza says "God is unjust for having made man live without coca; I would prefer a life of ten years with coca to one of ten thousand centuries without." The first account of its uses is from the writings of Tsehudi in 1838; he says that the natives of Chili and Peru commence the use of it when quite young, and continue it till old age, preferring hunger to loss of coca. An Indian servant, sixty-two years old, worked day and night for five days, with the exception of two hours sleep daily, at a difficult task, with no food except that procured by the chewing of coca. This statement is corroborated by the experience of all the earlier writers on this subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Practitioner, Vol. 34: A Journal of Therapeutics and Public Health; January to June (Classic Reprint). To get started finding The Practitioner, Vol. 34: A Journal of Therapeutics and Public Health; January to June (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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