Why Our Great-Grandparents were Happier Than We Are...

Bayers 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 strong cough

Coca Wine, anyone?

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 it's 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 Companyof NewYork. It was suggested that you should take a full glass with or after every meal... Children should take half a glass.

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

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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

Aug 05, 2009

Diana said...

Loll...seen some of these before, didn't know there were so many!

Sep 01, 2009

PauldeCabDriver said...

If our betters can't control us, what can they control? Most drug control laws have their origins in pseudo-religious sobriety movements.

BastiatWindow said...

I wonder if the curtailed lack of access to these "products" has had any contribution to our current obesity troubles. ><

Sep 09, 2009

madmaenad said...

Marvelous, thank you for posting. When I was a baby, I was given Laudanum cough syrup, still at the very end there of that pre-drug-hysteria period. I wish I'd kept the bottle now! I reposted this on facebook already. And to Paul, I would add that the pseudo-religious movements were then, and continue to be just pawns of even darker interests, to whose financial benefit were and still are all prohibition laws.

Oct 14, 2009

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Now they tell us.

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