Abstract

ADDICTED TO COKE? NO WONDER!

Debosree Ghosh*

Abstract

Many of us like consuming cold beverages like coke- the carbonated soft drink in bottles and cans, and feel refreshed .At times we just like to have a bottle of coke with no specific reason or for need of dehydration or refreshment or any. It is really strange to know that coke was also serendipity like many other unintended scientific findings. What I mean to say is that coke was actually not invented for the purpose it is being used today. Rather the formula for „Coca-Cola‟ was an accidental finding by John Pemberton and his lab assistant in 1885. They were actually working on finding a medicine for headache while they came across the formula for coke. It was patented as „French Wine Cola nerve tonic” in the year of its invention. During the civil war, Pemberton was treated with morphine and he got addicted to it. He was in search for a substitute of morphine.

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