s, and for the unfortunate
children over whom they exercise supervision."

Another physician tells of seeing a distinguished ecclesiastical
dignitary, a sworn foe of alcohol and its congeners, giving his young
child a generous daily allowance of one of these wines.

The user of coca wines runs a double risk--an alcohol craving may be
revived, or created; and, at the same time, cocainism may be set up, and
nothing but physical, mental and moral ruin follow.

The _British Medical Journal_ of January 23rd, 1897, says:--

"There can be no doubt that in many parts of the world cocaine
inebriety is largely on the increase. The greatest number of
victims is to be found among society women, and among women who
have adopted literature as a profession; and there is no doubt
that a considerable proportion of chronic cocainists have fallen
under the dominion of the drug from a desire to stimulate their
powers of imagination. Others have acquired that habit quite
innocently from taking coca wines. The symptoms experienced by
the victims of the cocaine habit are illusions of sight and
hearing, neuromuscular irritability, and localized anaesthesia.
After a time insomnia supervenes, and the patient displays a
curious hesitancy, and an inability to arrive at a decision on
even the most trivial subjects."

Dr. F. Coley says later on in the article before referred to:--

"There is another combination which, though utterly absurd from
a therapeutical point of view, is not in itself quite so
dangerous as coca wine. It will probably do a larger amount of
mischief, however, because more people take it. I refer to the
various preparations, so largely advertised, which profess to be
compounded of port wine, extract of malt, and extract of meat.
To the medically uneducated public this doubtless seems a most
promising combination: extract of meat for food, extract of malt
to aid digestion, port wine to make blood. Surely the very thing
to strengthen all who are weak, and to hasten the restoration of
convalescents. Unfortunately what the advertisements say--that
this stuff is largely prescribed by medical men--is not wholly
untrue.

"I do not suppose that any physician of anything like front rank
would make such a mistake. But busy general practitioners may be
excused if they prove to be a bit oblivious of physiology, and