COCA LEAVES.
(Branch in natural state.)
CHAPTER V.
OUR VARIOUS PREPARATIONS OF COCA.
Immediately 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. Vin Mariani.—Elixir Mariani.—Pâte Mariani.—Thé Mariani.—Pastilles Mariani, 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 by our greatest practitioners long before the discovery, or rather the application of Cocaine.
The results obtained were marvelous, and the innumerable 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 several large volumes.[21]