Interesting Medications from the past
Bayer’s Heroin
A bottle of Bayer’s heroin. Between 1890 and 1910 heroin was sold as a non-addictive substitute for morphine. It was also used to treat children with a strong cough.
Coca Wine
Metcalf Coca Wine was one of a huge variety of wines with cocaine on the market. Everybody used to say that it would make you happy and it would also work as a medicinal treatment.
Mariani wine
Mariani wine (1875) was the most famous Coca wine of its time. Pope Leo XIII used to carry one bottle with him all the time. He awarded Angelo Mariani (the producer) with a Vatican gold medal.
Maltine
Produced by Maltine Manufacturing Company of New York . It was suggested that you should take a full glass with or after every meal. Children should take half a glass.
A paper weight
A paper weight promoting C.F. Boehringer & Soehne ( Mannheim , Germany ). They were proud of being the biggest producers in the world of products containing Quinine and Cocaine.
Opium for Asthma
Cocaine tablets (1900)
All stage actors, singers’ teachers and preachers had to have them for a maximum performance. Great to “smooth” the voice.
Cocaine drops for toothache
Very popular for children in 1885. Not only they relieved the pain, they made the children happy!
Opium for new-borns
I’m sure this would make them sleep well (not only the Opium, but 46% alcohol!!!!!)
And we worry about aspirin for children today??
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This is great!! I love to see the old meds and what people would put into their bodies thinking it was good for them.
As opposed to the shit the docs give us today to put in our bodies, and we think is good for us?
Shame the docs aren’t still giving out this stuff. The heroin for a cough might be a step far
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Just like back in the day…even today…Drug addicted people are frowned upon.
The best one of all was “Reaganomics”(Hypocrisy). What’s funny, in my own experience, the ones passing a judgment are usually the ones in denial or just as they say in AA, a dry drunk!!!
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everything good for you in small doses except for weed and coke and opium that you can do all you want
It’s kinda sad to see how people get Coca and Cocaine mixed up. While the latter is a drug that’ll probably mess you up, coca leaves are, at most, a mild analgesic. Coca tea is not much more than any other herbal infusion, but it helps with altitude sickness and stomach ache.
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