The plague of nerves : their treatment / by a physician.

  • Stephen Smith & Co.
Date:
[1893?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The plague of nerves : their treatment / by a physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    m m voice, giving tone to enfeebled vocal cords and bracing up the relaxed, throat in a wonderful manner. Lastly, as a “pick-me-up” after overwork, or dissipation it has no equal. It may be added that Coca is a medi¬ cine of the mind as well as of the body. It relieves depression of spirits, and by the new life which it en¬ kindles in the brain and nervous system it raises a man from the slough of despond to a state of hope and happiness in which he feels able to defy “ the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.” HOW COCA IS BEST TAKEN. Having shown what Coca can do, it remains for us to consider how this great boon of nature can be used to the best advantage. It has already been said that the properties of Coca are complementary to those of alcohol, the two combined forming an ideal restora¬ tive and stimulant. But the mixture must be made in the right way so that one substance may not paralyse the other, but the powers peculiar to each may be developed to the fullest possible degree by their union. The very best form in which Coca can be taken is Hall’s Coca Wine. Wine by itself has a high nutritive and medicinal value. To quote the great Chemist Liebig: “ As^ xestoratiy^ji. means of Refreshment, where the powers of life are exhausted, of giving animation and energy where man has to struggle with days of sorrow, as a means of correction and compensation when misproportion occurs in nutrition, and the organism is deranged in its opera¬ tions, and as a means of protection against transferft organic disturbances, wine is surpassed by no product of nature or art.” But there is wine and wine, and an inferior wane is ml