title: Miracle or Menace?: The Arrival of Cocaine 1860-1900.
abstract: The arrival of cocaine was the formative episode in the modern understanding of the benefits and dangers of neurostimulants. European culture and medicine had historically been poor in stimulant plants and drugs. When coca and cocaine appeared in nineteenth-century Europe, doctors, pharmacists, and the public struggled to understand their benefits and risks, and to formulate a distinction between use and abuse.
authors.affiliation: Independent Scholar. Electronic address: info@mikejay.net.
authors.forename: Mike
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jay
mesh_terms: D003041:Coca / Q000009:adverse effects*; D003042:Cocaine / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D003042:Cocaine
keywords: Addiction; Coca; Cocaine; Jekyll and Hyde; Patent medicines; Sherlock Holmes; Sigmund Freud; Stimulants