For God, Country And Coca-Cola: The Unauthorized History of The Great American Soft Drink And...
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780684826790 (0684826798)
Publish date: June 1st 1997
Publisher: Touchstone Books
Pages no: 556
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...