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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    either after the meals or between—whenever she had to undergo some ex- ceptional fatigue. Madame de G , who has since then resumed her daily occupations, tells me that, thanks to the medicament, taken at proper times, she can bear, without fatigue, long conversations, and, at the same time, her vocal powers have acquired an ampler development. At the end of a month's treatment, her state was most satisfactory; there remained a slight blowing with the first heart-sound, which, however, was disappearing, and was not at all perceptible in the carotids any more. This observation seemed to me very interesting and conclusive in this respect, viz. : that it shows the action of the Vin Mariani when admin- istered without any other medicament, and, what is no less interesting, it shows its useful effects upon the vocal organs—a fact first determined by the eminent specialist, Professor Charles Fauvel, who has given to it the name of ' Tensor of the Vocal Cords.' Vin Mariani in the Treatment of Morpliiomania ; Eeported by Dr. Villeneuve, Paris. I wish to inform you of the I'esults I have obtained with Vin Mariani in three cases of inveterate morphiomania of many years standing. I am not aware that this affection, deplorable in so many ways, has ever been treated with Vin Mariani. It is on this account that I decided to publish this article, and trust it may be read by many of my confreres. I have had occasion to observe numerous cases of morphiomania, in es- pecially some parts of the United States, where that affection reigns since a long time among the rich classes of the Creole population in the South, and among physicians who, following the example of their confreres of Germany, resort too often to morphine to create a fictitious strength or peculiar sensations. I must admit that among the morphiomaniacs whom I treated during my travels, and in France, I obtained real cures only with those who had been addicted to the poison for but a few months, and who did not as yet need comparatively very large daily doses. During the last three months I have been treating three subjects of the morphine habit, recommended to me by friends who had abandoned the idea of curing them. I shall only speak of one of them—the most interest- ing case. He is a young man of 32 years, formerly a brilliant lawyer, but reduced when I saw him to a frightful state of physiological misery. Five years ago he began to use morphine preparations as a resource against a very alarm