The soda fountain at Jacob’s Pharmacy in Atl...  ...ever the case, as to how its inventor, pharmacist John Pemberton , came up with the tonic, he was specifically look...  ...r a cure for his own morphine addiction. You see, Pemberton was a former Confederate soldier who nearly had h...  ...to experimentin...

John Pemberton earned a medical degree when he was only 19 years...  ...addicted to morphine for relief. After the war, Pemberton settled in Atlanta, where he began work on a beve...  ...table alternative to ginger ale and root beer. Pemberton sold the rights to Coca-Cola (twic...