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The fjnsesthetic cooaine, which has attracted so much attention of late, both on account of its strength and because of it* great cost, is an alkaloid which was isolated more than thirty years ago, and even then its powers were understood. It was lo3t si^ht o', however, until Dr. Koller, of Vienna, by hia Hovel application of the drug to operations upon the 13 c, recently revived the interest, and has been credited by tho world in general with a real discovery. Cocaine ia derived from the cocoa shrub, which grows on the eastern slope of the Ande3, and whose dried leaves have always baen held in high esteem by the natives of that region for thuir stimulative and narcotic qualities. The plant whose seeds give us chocolate and cocoa-butter, and the tree bearing cocoa-nuts, are both entirely different from this.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2033, 18 July 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)
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142UNKNOWN Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2033, 18 July 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)
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