History of Cocaine The Mystery of Coca Java And the Kew Plant

A History of Cocaine: The Mystery of Coca Java & the Kew Plant sheds light into the early history of the cocaine industry when cocaine was a legal drug manufactured by major pharmaceutical companies. This book contains annotated translations of three rare, previously untranslated, late nineteenth and early twentieth century books on the chemistry, botany and economics of the cocaine industry, with emphasis on the little known role of Netherlands and Indonesia. The first translation explores the Indonesian cocaine trade and contains a detailed account of coca cultivation in Java. It provides an overview of the methods used to refine cocaine, and a general survey of its medicinal chemistry. This unique manuscript has never been translated into English before and is one of only three works ever written about the cocaine industry in Southeast Asia. The accompanying translations include general histories of the industry but written from different perspectives. They contain a wealth of detail, which will be new to historians and general readers alike. This book will be of great interest to toxicologists, criminalists and forensic experts but will also be fascinating for the general reader. Book jacket.Karch, Steven B. is the author of 'History of Cocaine The Mystery of Coca Java And the Kew Plant', published 2003 under ISBN 9781853155475 and ISBN 1853155470.