Show the properties of coca mr da pre expresses tile the opinion that coca is the most potent at mans disposal its hygienic properties are disclosed from its physiological properties I 1 I 1 is the verdict pronounced by a spanish physician resident at san salvador who furthermore declares that in hot infusion coca Is the most useful and healthful beverage one can drink after dining 1 it is especially commendable to tho the f beblo and to toc those who vrho have tr jrsn scented the limits of sobriety sobriety in using ap al cohol and therefore should bo be tested in asylums for inebriates it surely and certainly calms nervous excitability and used in small quantities enables one to endure cold rain and snow and to defy great fatigue and restores the forces impaired or lost by excesses in south Ainer american Americ lern cn countries it is popularly used for indigestion disordered stomach hysteria flatulency colic and all intestinal troubles it is employed constantly by toilers boilers in the mines find and when they reach the mines after marching several days through forests and over I 1 mountains sustained alone by the use of coca and maize they are arc permitted to cat at discretion through tour four days and have perfect rest co cilmo or habitual intoxication by use of coca becomes more incurable than alcon alco i holism or servitude to opiates but its consequences are not yet wholly measured nor determined excessive and constant use of the coca as aai an inton intoxicant cant begets rapid moral and intellectual degradation and decay and the steady decline is inter erupted at intervals by resists resistless ce impulses of violence and brutality the nature of the parent when perverted by the drug Is transmitted to the offspring and the inveterate vice operating th through rough generations is said to account tor for the brutality of certain races of indians notably the quichas and almaras Alra aras of the bolivian fastnesses fast nesses washington hington cor car chicago herald |