Coca Erythroxylon (Vin Mariani) : its uses in the treatment of disease : with notes and comments by prominent physicians.

  • Mariani & Company.
Date:
1886
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    Le ()}aiilois, October 13, 1875, and March 16, 1877. The reconstructive met (rod in medicine—the only true one, by the by—has become the order of the day. We mention among the medicaments of this order the most efficacious of all, the Vin Mariani. M. Mariani prepares this wine with the leaves of Coca, the most valued plant possessed by the natives of Peru, and it replaces advantageously Cinchona Wine, the inconveniences of which it does not share. Our readers know that we are opposed to ^^ puffing,^^ and we are not engaged in any such practice now, bat pay a simple debt of gratitude in recommending a medicament which has restored us to health. H. ]Nazet. To judge by the marvellous effects which Vin Mariani pro- duces, the tonic and stimulant properties of Coca are so power- ful that it would be fortunate for our anemic j)opulation if the efforts at acclimatization of this plant by M. Mariani were crowned with success. H. T^AZET. EXTEACTS FROM ^^ VOICE, SONG AND SPEECII.^^ Bv Lennox Browne, F. E. C. S. Ed., Senior Surgeon to the Central Throat and Ear Hospital, Surgeon and Aural Surgeon to the Eoyal Society of Musicians, author of ^' The Throat and its Diseases,^^ '^ Medical Hints on the Singing Voice, etc; and Emil Behnke, Lecturer on Vocal Physi- ology and Teacher of Voice Production; author of ^''Me- chanism of the Human Voice, etc., London Ed., William CloAves & Sons, Amer. Ed., Gr. P. Putnam^s Sons, ]3p. 254, 255 : We liave said tliat, very exceptionally, a glass of champagne may be allowed, before use of the voice, in cases of extreme and uncontrollable nervousness. We would strongly ui'ge that the instance in which such in-