"After a month's treatment I had succeeded in reducing the daily doses without causing alarming symptoms; the physiological functions seemed to awaken again. However, the congestion and especially the dyspepsia was very grave, and the cough which had been suppressed by morphine returned. It was then that I treated my patient with phosphate of lime, the _pâte_ and the _Vin Mariani_. Lacking his habitual stimulant, he was plunged in a semi-coma from which he could not always be relieved with weaker daily doses of morphine. "The danger I feared most was a relapse of bronchitis, and that the cough and expectoration might end fatally. But in about a week, during which he took ten doses of _Pâte de Coca_ daily, the cough became less fatiguing and disappeared entirely in about twenty days. The patient then commenced to take small doses of _Vin Mariani_ (two Madeira-glasses a day). At first congestion appeared, but little by little, as digestion became more easy, my patient, who on account of his profound anæmia could not tolerate any table wines, took at first a small glass, then two, then three glasses at a meal. Now he can go and take his dinner in town, which he had not been able to do for three years; he regained his former vigor, is able to undertake anew his occupations, and has entirely given up his morphine habit." We will conclude our quotations, already too numerous, with an article by Dr. Scaglia, published in 1877 in the _Gazette des Hopitaux_: "La Coca et ses propriétés thérapeutiques." "In anæmia, connected with chronic pulmonary affections without fever, and in anæmia accompanied by gastralgia, _Vin Mariani_ has an excellent effect. Its stimulating properties can also be admirably made use of in those intermediate states of impaired health which are not yet anæmia, but must in the end become so; physical or mental overwork, the cerebral weakness due to excess of work or pleasure; the exhaustion from which the inhabitants of large cities suffer through irregularities of diet and imperfect hygiene owing to their positions and surroundings. "_Vin Mariani_ is unquestionably of benefit to people of sedentary habits worn out by work, to convalescents who, from a prolonged confinement in bed, have lost muscular strength, to patients suffering from diabetes or Bright's disease, whose muscles have lost their elasticity and vigor. "Let us add that the taste of _Vin Mariani_ is exquisite, that it is in no way suggestive of drugs, and that its use is acceptable to the most fastidious." Ordinary Dose—Two or three claret-glassfuls daily, half an hour before or immediately after eating.