For God, Country and Coca-Cola: The Definitive History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes It
Format: paperback
ISBN:
978046502917
Publish date: May 14th 2013
Publisher: Basic Books
Pages no: 523
Edition language: English
In the late nineteenth century, cocaine was considered a wonderdrug. Heralded by medical journals, pharmacists, Freud and even several Popes - Pope Leo III was a regular imbiber of Vin Mariani, a wine created in 1863 that contained 2.16 grains of cocaine, in the recommended dose of six glasses per d...