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History Of Coca-Cola

History Of Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola was born on may 8th, 1886 at the hands of Dr.

John Smith Pemberton. In the laboratory of his house at 107

Marietta Street, Atlanta, Georgia he finally settled

on the syrup later to be known as Coca-Cola.1.

John Pemberton was born in Knoxville, Georgia in 1831.

At the age of 17, he

attended the Botanical Medicine School of the State of

Georgia.2. After school he owned a drug store in Columbus,

Georgia and fought for the confederacy in the Civil War.

During the war he became addicted to morphine from an

injury.3. After the war ended, he moved to Atlanta, Georgia

and kept up his pharmacy business at home. He created such

patent medicines as Globe flower Cough Syrup, Extract of

Stillingia, Triple Liver Pills, Lemon & Orange Elixer, and

French wine of Coca. The latter, being very similar to the

"Vin Mariani" created by a private industrialist, Angelo

Mariani, was inevitably the biggest seller. The "Vin

Mariani" was a cocaine laced Bordeaux wine, popular

throughout the world.4. French Wine of coca included

cocaine as well as caffeine from the kola nut found in a

tree from Africa. It was sold as a cure for nervous

disorders, disturbances of internal plumbing and

impotency.5.



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In November 1885, Pemberton decided to remove the wine

and offer it as a syrup based medicine or a fountain drink,

after Atlanta voted to become a dry city effective

July 1886.6. He began experimenting. When he started out the

overall taste was very bitter due to the caffeine and

cocaine. He added a lot of sugar to cover these flavors, but

that proved to make it a very sickening kind of sweet. TO

counter-balance that he added various fruit flavors and

citric...