The San Francisco call., 1896-03-09
NEW TO-DAY.
AND NOW, AMERICA,
France and Germany
Have Given Boun-
ties
To Induce Planters to Cultivate in
Their Colonies the Nut From
Which KOlafra Is Made.
We Shall Do Better and Plant
Directly Within Our
Own Borders.
Orange.GroWerS to Plant Trees in
Florida, and Spretkels, the Sugar
King, in the Sandwich Islands.

through the desert without other food, and the
New York Athletic Club to win thirteen
straight events from London in the inter-
national games, and Yale College to defeat
Cambridge, England, and which is being used
by the New York letter-carriers to make extra
trips without fatigue. and which has excited
the curiosity and won the approval of prom1-
nent members of the medical profession all
over the world, and which in the United States
at least in the form of Vino-Kol olafra, is giving
immediate and lasting strength to thousands
who are daily overtaxed either by physical or
mentaI labor has at last attracted the atten-
ton of capital.
The plain truth is that the species of Sterculs
(which is the botanical name of the nut from
which the Vino-Kolafra of the drugstores is
made) is a staple the cultivation OF which
promises profit for those engaged in it.
The French and German governments recog-
nized this fully when they gave large bounties
to enable the tree to be planted in their colo
MES.
The commercial Importance of the tree gives
q description of it of more than passing In
terest. 1t grows from thirty to sixty feet in
height and takes five years to bear to any
extent The conditions of the climate are heat
and moisture q frostless belt. The nuts
themselves are ABOUT nalf the size of an egg,
irregular in contour and of a darkish hue. 1t
is of the utmost importance they should be
gathered fresh and the essential oil OF the nut
preserved unallered and unimpaired.
johnson & Johnson of No. 90 William street,
New York, manufacturing chemists, we'll and
favorably known to the medical profession,
were quick to realize the value OF obtaining
the fresh nut and SO preparing it for general
consump ption that its characteristic properties
should be retained in their tull strength. To
attain this end they some time ago esta ablished
a laboratory in the tropical home of the tree.
Now comes the intelligence. that Mr.. Claus
S2reckefs, the Sugar King of California, is
about to plant trees in the Sandwich Islands,
where the climatic and soil conditions are GER
tainly ideal. B ut what is more interesting
still has been discovered that the soil and cli-
mate of Florida also adapted - the sue
cessful cultivation of the African 'trf of Iife."
The undoubted success of the Ko{afra prod
ucts, in connection with a scarcity OF the nuts,
has induced goodly number of the Florida
orange-growers to undertake the cultivation of
the tree with hope of obtaining from it
more certain as well as more prof table crop
than is afforded by orange trees.
Kolafra is used to some extent as substi-
tute for coffee and tea. It's full tonic and
medicinal qualities, however, are best secured
by preparing the nuts fresh from the tree with
wine. and it is in this form, OF what is popu-
/ larly known as Vino-Kolafra, that it has
cured Its largest sale. Its importance is due,
first to its remarkable sustaining power, Sec
ondly to the fact that, unlike all other known
stimulants, Its use is followed by no reaction,
depression or unpleasant after effects of any
kind. 1t is this latter quality which renders it
an ideal general stimulant. It's tonic and
remedial qualities have commended it largely
to physicians, as will be seen from the follow
ing from the New York Sun:
Vino-K -Kolafra, accoi ding to the testimony OF
the medical profession, is pre-eminent in the
treatment of all diseases where a tonic stimu-
liant or invigorant is indicated. In nervous
exhaustion, depression, lassitude, anaemia,
dyspepsia, biiousness; in convalescence, ir-
regular heart and general debility-in these
and all other diseases arising from lack of
vitality it is decidedly beneficial.
DR.. E. F. Smith, chairman of the Board of
Management of the Brooklyn State Hospital
for the Insane. when interviewed at his resi-
dence, III Putnam avenue, Brooklyn, said in
regard to the value of the nut as a medicinal
remedy and its physiological and therapeutic
action GIN considering the merits of this
remedy. as stimuant beverage, class it
above alcohol, cocoa, coffee or tea. It's action
is natural and it produces no detrimental
after effects. 1t is the only remedy We have
that produces natural toning up and stimu-
lation OF the system; all others cause a degree
of depressi on which corresponds to the
amount of energy consumed by their stimu.
liant action. Kolafra, on the other hand, while
producing no bad effects at all, is an antidote
to the i'll results which follow the administra-
ton of alcohol. opium, etc. 1t is, in fact, the
only known stimulant whose action and eff
fects are entirely natural and healthful. It
seems to me that the introduction of an
efficient preparation of this nut will meet q
necessity that mas long been recognized in
medical circles. 1 am now prescribing it in
my practice, and find it beneficial in all cases
where such a remedy is desired"
DR.. A. R. Strachan, of No. % East Thirtieth
street, house physician of the Hotel Bruns-
wick. in an article in the New York Times
says: 81 used Vino-Kolafra myself during q
bad attack of la grippe with excellent results.
1t is certainly worthy of the unbiased consid-
GRAFTON of every medical man, whose duty it is
| to be on the outlook for remedies of merit. 1t
| fills place in practice which for many years
we have attempted to fill with other thera-
| peutic agents which have not been adequate to
| meet all the requirements. consider Vino
| Kolafra natural srimulant. which braces up
| an exhausted nervous system, and, indeed,
| which prevents fatigue when taken before
wearying work. 1t allays irritation In nervous
| troubles, and helps little in almost every
| case, without hindering in any direction. 1t
| helps out the stomach the liver and kidneys
| Dr. Cyrus Edison, president of the New York
! Health Board: 81 have used IL In my practice
| for more than year aud half, to bridge over
that frequent gap in treatment which is met
| with in cases of prolonged illness. OF all the
| stimulants known it is the most powerful and
| at the same time absolutely harmless. In cases
| OF acute dyspepsia and in convalescence 1t has
| been worth it's weight in gold"
| The medical journals have OF late given
much space to discussion OF Kolafra, and the
universal testimony is in its favor
The Philadelphia Medical Bulletin, for ex-
ample, quotes Professor Edward Haeckle of
the Paris school of Medicine, who has in be-
half of the French Army authorities given
much attention to products OF the African nut,
as saying. sIt is the greatest Intestinal tonic
that has ever been placed in physicians
hands"
1t is hoped that the planting of the tree in
southern Florida and lower California will
add greatly to the sum of our national re.
sources.