Coca Wine: How a Monk's Recipe Reached Freud
19th Century

Coca Wine: How a Monk's Recipe Reached Freud

A secret ingredient list for coca wine vanished from a Parisian monastery and sparked a medical revolution that would terrify the Catholic Church for a century.

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