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MARTINDALE, William (1840-1902). Coca, cocaine and its salts: Their history, medical and economic uses, and medicinal preparations. London: H.K. Lewis, 1886.
12mo. Printed on blue paper. Chromolithograph frontispiece of the coca plant. Original gilt-lettered dark green cloth (spine a bit darkened, some rubbing at corners).
FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest books in English dealing with cocaine as a curative. Cocaine was first used by the Viennese physician Karl Koller in 1884 as a local anesthetic, soon spreading throughout Europe and America as a universal “cure-all”.
[With:] MARIANI, Angelo. Coca and its Therapeutic Application. New York: J.N. Jaros, 1892. Numerous wood-engraved plates (one double-page in color) and in text illustrations. Original gilt-lettered cloth (spine sunned). Provenance: S. Cooke Ingraham (rubberstamp). Second edition.