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The man who inventedCoca-Cola was not a nativeAtlantan, but on the day of his funeral every drugstore in town testimonially shut up shop. He was John Styth Pemberton, born in 1831 in Knoxville, Georgia, eighty miles away. Sometimes known asDoctor, Pemberton was a pharmacist who, during theCivil War, led a cavalry troop under General Joe Wheeler. He settled inAtlanta in 1869, and soon began brewing such patent medicines as Triplex Liver Pills and Globe of FlowerCough Syrup. In 1885, he registered a trade- mark for something called French WineCoca Ideal Nerve and Tonic Stimulant; a few months later be formed the PembertonChemicalCompany and recruited the services of a bookkeeper named Frank M. Robinson, who not only had a good head for figures but, attached to it, so exceptional a nose that he could audit the composition of a batch of syrup merely by sniffling it. In 1886--year in which, as contemporaryCoca-Cola officials like to point out,ConanDoyle unveiled Sherlock Holmes and France unveiled the Statue of Liberty-Pemberton unveiled a syrup that he calledCoca-Col

A、It Was a modification of his French WineCoc
A、He had taken out the wine and added a pinch of caffeine, and, when the end product tasted awful, had thrown in some extract of cola nut and a few other oils, blending the mixture in a three-legged iron pot in his back yard and swishing it around with an oar. He distributed it to soda fountains in used beer bottles, and Robinson, with his flowing bookkeeper’s script, presently devised a label, on which "Coca-Cola" was writ- ten in the fashion that is still employe
D、Pemberton looked upon his mixture less as a refreshment than as a headache cure, especially for people whose headache could be traced to over-indulgence.
On a morning late in 1886, one such victim of the night before dragged himself into anAtlanta drugstore and asked for a dollop ofCoca-col
A、Druggists customarily stirred a tea- spoonful of syrup into a glass of water, but in this instance the man on duty was too lazy to walk to the fresh-water tap, a couple of feet off. Instead, he mixed the syrup with some soda water, which was closer at han
D、The suffering customer perked up almost at once, and word quickly spread that the bestCoca-Cola was a fizzy one.
The last paragraph mainly tells ______.
A、the complaint against the lazy shop-assistant
B、a real test ofCoca-Cola as a headache cure
C、the mediocre service of the drugstore
D、a happy accident that gave birth toCoca-Cola
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