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Thanks to Sammie for sending this one!
'Why Our
Great-Grandparents Had
Such Fond
Memories Of Their Youth...'
(I'm surprised that they remembered anything!!)
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 suffering with a strong
cough.
Coca Wine,
anyone?
Metcalf's 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
the Maltine Manufacturing Company of New
York. It was
suggested that you should take a full glass
with or after
every meal.
Children
should only 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:
At 40%
alcohol plus 3 grams of opium per tablet,
it didn't cure you, but you didn't care...
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. ot only did they
relieve the
pain, they made the children very happy!
Opium for new-borns.
I'm sure this
would make them sleep well (not only the
Opium, but
also 46% alcohol)!
It's no
wonder they were called, 'The Good Old Days'!!
From cradle to grave...
Everyone Was Stoned!!!