How Was Coca-Cola Used Medicinally and What Were the Additives ?
Question by SeemsLegit: How was Coca-Cola used medicinally and what were the additives ?
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Answer by GeneL
Yep, around the time it was first created, it contained Cocaine…hence the name: Coke
In 1819, caffeine, a mild stimulant, had been extracted from West African kola beans and scientists’ experiments with coca leaves had, in 1855, isolated the drug cocaine, which became widely used as a local anesthetic. In the 1880s, an Atlanta druggist named John Pemberton frequently concocted potions to relieve his customers’ ailments.
Word of this magic beverage, that Pemberton’s bookkeeper had named “Coca-Cola”, spread rapidly throughout the city of Atlanta. But Pemberton’s health was failing, and he had also become addicted to morphine, so when Asa Candler, owner of an Atlanta drug store chain, offered him $ 2,300 for the Coca-Cola syrup formula, he accepted. Candler soon created a company to mass-produce the syrup in order to meet the urgent demand of Atlanta pharmacies.
It has been estimated that John Pemberton’s original “Coke”, as it was nicknamed, contained almost 9 milligrams of cocaine per glass. But caffeine increases the effect of cocaine and most customers usually drank more than one glass of Coke; sometimes several throughout the day. Three Cokes would provide roughly 30 milligrams of cocaine, which compares with the 20 to 30 milligrams normally “snorted” in a day by a contemporary cocaine user. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that Atlanta’s soda fountains soon became almost as popular as its saloons.
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