For God, Country & Coca-Cola
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781842030424 (1842030426)
Publisher: Texere Publishing
Pages no: 664
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...