Great Grandpa had moonshine, he didn't need that fancy store bought stuff

[old Grump]

Have you ever wondered why our great grandparents all had such fond memories of their youth?
Well.. I'm surprised they remembered anything at all !!!
Forget Tums & Tylenol.
Forget Aleve & Benadryl.
Look at the stuff they had back then!

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.

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Coca Wine, anyone?
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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 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.
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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
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A paperweight:
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A paperweight 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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At 40% alcohol plus 3 grams of opium per tablet.
It didn't cure you... but you didn't care!


Cocaine Tablets (1900):
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All stage actors, singers, teachers and preachers had to have them for a maximum performance.
Great to 'smooth' the voice.

Cocaine drops for toothache:
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Very popular for children in 1885.
Not only did they relieve the pain, they made the children very happy!


Opium for newborns:
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I'm sure this would make them sleep well.
(not only the Opium, but also the 46% alcohol)
It's no wonder they were called, "The Good Old Days".
From cradle to grave... everyone was STONED !!!

[samiam]

yep, and if .gov would have kept out of things no telling what history might have changed

[Warthogg]

Coca-Cola didn' become completely cocaine free until 1929.


http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/cocaine.asp



Wart

[mriddick]

Strung out 4 yr olds was one reason our forefathers decided to regulate drugs... There were other reasons as well I fear we are about to relearn.

(forefathers as those before us, not the founders of the country)

[Warthogg]

yep, and if .gov would have kept out of things no telling what history might have changed

At least the forefathers got the constitution written while they could still legally smoke pot.



Wart

[davepool]

When my grandfather died in 1972 my dad opened his safety deposit box at the bank and along with some nazi pins( apparently he and my grandmother were members of the american nazi party) he had an empty packet of bayer headache powder that was 99.9% pure heroin, it was priced at 25 cents,so not cheap stuff at the time.