For God, Country and Coca-Cola: The Unauthorized History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes It
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780684193472 (0684193477)
Publish date: May 16th 1994
Publisher: Scribner Paper Fiction
Pages no: 576
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...