Medicine in The Good Old Days
Why Our Great-Great Grandparents Had Fond Memories Of Their Youth…’
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..
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.
It’s no wonder they were called,
‘The Good Old Days’!!
From cradle to grave…
Everyone Was Stoned!!!
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Bring back the “Good Ole Days!!!”. I needed a good laugh.
July 19th, 2011 at 23:49
Heh, I wonder if the acting was better back then.
September 12th, 2011 at 15:55
I am sure for them it must have been
September 12th, 2011 at 20:21