KOLA CORDIAL A New and Valuable Tonic Stimulant Each fluid ounce represents 120 gra. of Kola (Sterculia Acuminata whose agreeable odor and characteristic taste (without its acrid bitterness) are imparted to it in a marked degree. KOLA owes its therapeutic value to Caffeine, Theobromine and a principle peculiar to itself, called Kolanine. Its stimulating and sustaining effects on the nervous system are more prompt, powerful and of longer duration than that of Caffeine alone. It is also superior to Coca as a cerebro-spinal stimulant, with none of the objections which so frequently follow the continued use of the latter, hence this Cordial is recommended to those whose work subjects them to excessive mental or physical exhaustion. 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D., JACKSONVILLE, ILL, Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases, St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons; Professor of Cranio-Cerebral Surgery, Woman's Medical College, St. Louis; Late Assistant Physician Illinois Central Hospital for the Insane; Formerly Resident Physician Pennsylvania Institution for the Feeble Minded; Managing Editor of the Medical Fortnightly; President of the Morgan County Medical Society of Illinois; Secretary of the Tri-State Medical Society (Illinois Iowa and Missouri; Secretary Section of Neurology, Amer A ican Medical Association, 1893. Read before the Tri-State Medical Society, Jacksonville, III., Oct., 1894. GREAT deal of vague, unscientific information exists regarding the nervous woman. Prom girlhood to old age she is the subject of much controversy, lay and professional. The sewing society has discussed her weaknesses and the learned bodies of medical men have, too frequently, aired her afflictions with much unconservative and unsympathetic enthusiasm. Save from the surgical aspect, her woes and afflictions have not received the professional study and support they deserve. In the daily |