COCAINE

Jack's Reference Book for Home and Office : An Encyclopaedia of General Information: Medical Dictionary · 1909 · p. 1
is an alkaloid much used in surgery to numb the part on which the operation is to be performed. Coca leaves are chewed by the natives of Peru in order to deaden the panes of hunger during long journeys without food. oper there are, unfortunately, many slaves to baneful t of taking cocaine, » habit often combined th alcoholism. For this reason cocaine should never be used except in obedience to medical orders. _ [s. 344]
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