The Massachusetts eclectic medical journal (1884) (14595710989)

Identifier: massachusettsecl04bost (find matches)
Title: The Massachusetts eclectic medical journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Medicine, Eclectic
Publisher: Boston : Lynde & Barrows
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and the National Endowment for the Humanities



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ETCALFS WINE
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m > > O zo > z HO 30 m Coca Leaves have been in use by the native Indiana in South America lrom the earliest timesas a remedy for every malady, from a simple cut to neuralgia and headache; and while chewing it,they pass whole days in travelling or working without food, eating heartily in the evening, withoutinconvenience, and passing the night in refreshing sleep. Coca Leaves have been recommended by Ringer as valuable in FEBRILE DISORDERS,by restraining tissue metamorphosis, and for tbe same reason in Phthisis. With decided anodyne and antispasmodic qualities, they have been employed in Thypus,SCORBUTUS, Gastralgia, Anaemia, Enteralgia, and to assist digestion. Public Speakers, Singers, and Actors have found vVine of Coca (Metcalfs) to be a valuabletonic to the vocal cords, and also a sedative, allaying nervous fright wiihout perceptible after effect. It is agreeable to the taste, and can be prescribed for children or convalescents. Athletes,Pedestrians, and Bas