1890 Coca and its Therapeutic Application by Angelo Mariani

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servations made with our special products. These occur rences, often repeated, have given rise to protests from m^y physicians,among others Dr.W.Oliver Moore, Sir Morell Mackenzie, Dr.Ch.Fauvel. To the Editor ofthe Nezv York Medical Journal; Sir: In your issue of January 3,1885,pagelQ,in a report of a paper read before the New York Medical Society, on "The Physiological and Therapeutical Effects of the Coca Leaf and its Alkaloid," occurs the following: "For over twenty years Dr.Fauvel has used it, both internally in the form of Vin Mariani,and also by local applications to the pharynx and larynx in spray or by brush,in the form of a fluid extract, or, more recently, of a concentrated non alcoholic preparation more of the nature of a cordial (pre pared by Mariani& Co.)." Several manufacturers of Coca preparations have taken occasion to quotefrom this paper,each in turn substituting the name of his own production instead of the one men tioned in the original. Asthe preparations of Coca mentioned in my paper were personally tested and found to be the best of a large num ber experimented with, I wish to call attention to these misquotations and substitutions. Very truly, W.Oliver Moore,M.D. We have taken the trouble to compare the report of Dr. Moore's remarks with the little book on Coca prepared by M.Mariani, and with the circulars issued by a number of manufacturers of Coca preparations; and we certainly think that some of these manufacturers have taken an un warrantable liberty in appropriating work that evidently cost M.Mariani a good deal of time and no little outlay of money.—Editor.