been used in their manufacture:
Calcycine, Celery Cocoa, Citro Cola, Deep Rock Ginger Ale,
Fosko, Heck's Star Pepsin, Koke, Koke Ola, Kalafra, Kumfort,
Lime Juice and Kola, Lon Kola, Meg-O, Mexicola, Pau Pau Cola,
Pedro, Pepsi Cola, Speed Ball, To-Ko, Vril.
The report says that the following list were not examined but
from their names, and from the evidence submitted, they contain
either caffeine or coca leaf extract, or both: Charcola, Cherry
Kola, Cola Soda, Cola Ginger, Field's Coca, Imported French
Cola, Jacob's Kola, Koko Ale, Kola Cream, Kola Pepsin Celery
Wine Tonic, Kola Vena, Loco Kola, Mintola, Mate, Pikmeup,
Ro-Cola, Schelhorn's Coca, Vine Cola, Viz.
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, says that
the sale of all such drinks should be prohibited.
Caffeine is a drug much used in headache remedies. It is derived
from the kola nut, and from tea and coffee. It is also made
artificially from uric acid occurring in the guano or bird
manure deposits of South America. This bird manure product is
said to be used in some of the drinks while in others caffeine
obtained from refuse tea sweepings is used. The sales-manager of
the Coca Cola Company says the caffeine in their product is made
from tea. It is claimed by the manufacturers of caffeine drinks
that they are as harmless as tea or coffee. But physicians
advise against the use of tea and coffee for children and for
delicate, nervous people, and every intelligent person knows
that these drinks should not be indulged in immoderately. The
secret caffeine drinks at the soda-fountain are not warned
against because few people know of what they are made. So it
frequently happens that children whose parents do not permit
them to drink tea and coffee are taking caffeine in a much more
injurious form at the drug stores.
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, says:
"When caffeine is separated from tea and coffee, and used as a
separate drug, it exerts a much more specific action upon the
system than when in natural combination. Its general effect is
to induce that unhappy state described as nervousness, with
deranged digestion and impaired health." Dr. H. H. Rusby, Dean
of the College of Pharmacy, of Columbia University, New York
City, a high authority, says: "Caffeine is a genuine po
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