Editing Coca (section)

== Literary references ==

Probably the earliest reference to coca in English literature is in "Pomona", the fifth book of [[Abraham Cowley]]'s posthumously published Latin work, ''Plantarum libri sex'' (1668; translated as ''Six Books of Plants'' in 1689).<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/peruhistoryofcoc00mortrich/peruhistoryofcoc00mortrich_djvu.txt ''Peru. History of coca, "the divine plant" of the Incas; with an introductory account of the Incas, and of the Andean Indians of to-day'']. W. Golden Mortimer, M.D. Ed. J. H. Vail & Co, 1901. [[Abraham Cowley]]'s poem "A Legend of Coca" : in chapter I ''An introduction to the history of coca'', pp. 25–27.</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Third Part of the Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley Being his Six Books of Plants|url=https://cowley.lib.virginia.edu/CowPlan/CowPlan.part_5.div1.html|access-date=2022-01-21|website=cowley.lib.virginia.edu}}</ref> In the series of [[Aubrey–Maturin series|Aubrey–Maturin]] novels by [[Patrick O'Brian]], set during the Napoleonic wars, Dr. Stephen Maturin, a naval physician, naturalist, and British intelligence agent discovers the use of coca leaves on a mission to Peru, and makes regular use of them in several of the later novels in the series.