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ALCOHOL AS A MEDICINE.
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| 5486 | Menzel's Extract of Malt | 5.90 | 5.24 |
| 5625 | Menzel's Extract of Malt | 6.75 | 4.35 |
| 5623 | King of Malt Tonics, Lion Tonic | 10.95 | 7.05 |
| 5624 | Teutonic, "A concentrated Extract of Malt and Hops" | 9-95 | 7.45 |
| 5409 | Van Nostrand's Old Stout Porter, "a pure malt extract" | 7.97 | 6.55 |
| 5233 | Philadephia Porter | 5.34 | 6.63 |
| 5232 | Burke's Guiness Stout | 6.66 | 7.17 |
The alcohol in the above table represents the cubic centimeters of alcohol in a 100 cubic centimeters of the liquid. The solids are the number of grams of solid extract in each 100 centimeters of the liquid.
S. P. SHARPLES.
The British Medical Journal, and the British Medical Temperance Review have been calling attention to the danger in coca wines. Intemperance among invalids is said to be greatly on the increase from the use of these wines. In every case the basis of these preparations is strongly alcoholic wine, ranging from 18 to 20 per cent. The coca added is either the leaves, or liquid extract of coca, or hydrochlorate of cocaine.
Dr. Frederic Coley says in the British Medical Journal:—
"Coca, and its chief alkaloid, cocaine, are drugs which possess some power of removing the sense of fatigue, just as analgesics remove the consciousness of pain. But they no more remove the physical condition of muscles, and nerve centres, of which the sense of pain gives us warning, than a dose of morphine, which removes the pain of toothache, removes the offending tooth, or even arrests the caries in it. The truth of this will be obvious to anyone who remembers enough of physio-
