A New "Muscle-Bracing" Drug.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 7 October 1890, Page 3

A New " Muscle-Bracing" Drug.

A rival to oaffeine as a muscle bracing and stimulating drug ho been found in kola. frofessor Haeckel, of Marseilles, admits (a Daily Neios correspondent says) the virtues of caffeine, but he says those of kola are greater. Ho used it in the food of members of an Alpine Club, who perfoi mcd mountaineering featg of an unusual kind without being tired. The Co'onel of the 180 th Regiment at Perpignan, dosed by the professor with kola mude the ascent of the Canig;.u Mountains near Perpigoan to a height of 9,187 feet, and felt quite fresh after his oiiinb, which lasted twelve hours. He only halted onco, and for twenty minut« i B, and ate nothing. The 124 th Regiment was able last July to accomplish a march of fifteen and a half hours from Laval to Renues under similar conditions. They oovered r distance of 72 kilometres, and were able to go much further in the last hour. They walked at the rat* of 8£ miles an hour. Ko'a is better than oats for giving mettle and staying power to horses. Perhaps the fasting men have got hod of alcoloid of kola, of which a very email quantit}' goes a long way.