'Why Our Great-Grandparents Had Fond Memories of Their Youth...'(I'm surprised they remember 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..
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 (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.Maltine Coca Wine was 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.
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.
Not only did they relieve the pain, they made the children very happy!
Opium for newborns.
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!
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Why Our Grandparents Were So Happy!!!
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I'm interested in almost everything. Use to like to travel, but it's too expensive now. I take Tai Chi classes, swim, volunteer in a Jump-start program for pre-schoolers. I'm an avid reader and like nearly everyone these days I follow politics avidly. I'm a former teacher and Special Projects Coordinator for a Telecommunications company, Assistant to the President of a Japanese silicon wafer manufacturing company. Am now enjoying retirement -- most of the time. I have two daughters, one son-in-law and two sons scattered all over the country. No grandchildren.
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sounds good to me! ;)
Here you can say : The good old times ! lol !
I only recognize the last one: paragoric which we grew up with!
Isn't that amazing?
My grandmom's cure for sore throat was Old Grandad and brown sugar.
Interesting info.
Pass the cocaine drops sil vous plait haha!
Oh! So interesting!
Cocaine!?!?
Well I wouldn't mind trying it now! He he he;o)
Ah, the good old days....
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