Medicinal Soft Drinks and Coca-Cola Fiends: The Toxic History of Soda

Published April 15, 2014

Medicinal Soft Drinks and Coca-Cola Fiends: The Toxic History of Soda
Pharmacists were soon making soda mixtures with stronger drugs known as “nervines,” a category that included strychnine, cannabis, morphine, opium, heroin, and a new miracle compound called cocaine, which was first isolated in 1855. “Cocaine was a …
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