Excerpt from Curiosities and Wonders of the Vegetable Kingdom The Coca is a tree, the leaves of which are used by the inhabitants of Peru as Opium is by Eastern nations, and spirituous liquors by Europeans. The following account of its baleful effects is condensed from the travels of Dr. Poeppig. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.