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Dr. Howard Markel is a distinguished medical historian, a pediatrician and an addiction specialist who has written a riveting and
absorbing tale of these two medical giants in alternating chapters.
The book also provides detailed accounts of the origin of cocaine,
tracing its history from antiquity to the modern period. In the
Prologue of this beautifully written book, he sets the stage, starting
with the morning of May 5, 1885