Coca Wine by Aymon de Lestrange

Author:Aymon de Lestrange
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Drugs/Pop Culture
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2018-08-20T16:00:00+00:00

Several producers of coca wine simply added cocaine to their formulas. According to Mariani:

Since the successful introduction of Vin Mariani to the medical profession of the United States, many druggists throughout the country have tried to make their own Coca preparations, but in every instance, physicians testing them have pronounced the same very disagreeable to the taste, and not only were they without efficacy, but even caused nausea, vomiting, and serious complications.20

Enameled metal advertisement for a competitor of Mariani called Kola-Coca. Courtesy of J. Santo Domingo.

His complaints against some of these rival preparations were justified by the methods used by their manufacturers. In a letter to the editor of the New York Medical Journal in 1885, Dr. William Oliver Moore complained about: “misquotations and substitutions” from several manufacturers of coca preparations, who had used quotations from his recent article published in the same journal about the effects of coca, “each in turn substituting the name of his own product instead of the one mentioned in the original,” namely, Mariani’s coca preparations, which he believed “to be the best among all those he had experimented.”21

In the same issue there was a letter sent from an American doctor to Mariani offering to mention his name and his products very favorably in medical journals, for the modest sum of twenty-five dollars, a proposition that Mariani did not take up.22

In the same journal, two years later, Dr. Charles Fauvel, in a letter to the editor, states:

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