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De la Kola (Sterculia Acuminata): Etude Physiologique et Therapeutique
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLeon-Ernest Monnet
Paris: Lille (Camille Robbe Printing), 1884.Kola (Sterculia Acuminata): Physiological and Therapeutic Study. A detailed study of the physiological and therapeutic uses of the African stimulant Gotu Kola. In the original Doctor of Medicine Thesis wrappers, reissued as a monograph in the same year. An advertisement for Fisher & Co’s Mighty Alok Kola Nut tonic in The Brisbane Courier, 1898 quotes Monnet’s report: “I gave a strong infusion of Kola Nut to a railroad track layer, who was suffering from ‘blue devil’s’ (hypochondria) extremely, and within two hours he felt like going to his hard duties, and laughed and talked.”