Why Our Great-Grandparents Have Such Fond Memories Of Their Youth...
(I'm surprised that 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.
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Coca Wine, anyone? :drink:
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.
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Mariani Wine. :drink:
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.
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Maltine. :drink:
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 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.
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Opium for Asthma:
At 40% alcohol plus 3 grams of opium per tablet,
It didn't cure you, but you didn't care... :-X
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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.
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Cocaine drops for toothache.
Very popular for children in 1885. Not only did they relieve the pain, they made the children very happy!
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Opium for newborns.
I'm sure this would make them sleep well!!
(not only the Opium, but also 46% alcohol)!! :-O
It's no wonder they were called, 'The Good Old Days'!!
From cradle to grave...Everyone Was Stoned!!! :-$
I should note that I got this info in email and did not check it with snopes and I am by any means NOT promoting drug usage but I sure do wonder did they really use all of those "drugs" back in those days for those ailments??? Castor oil & whiskey are one thing but...heroin? Cocaine? Sheesh!! 😐
My Dad, retired pharmacist, has/had quite a collection at one time of those old timey drugs. Yes, they are real. They were used for anything from terminal cancers to simple coughs to plain old household blahs. Codeine, cocaine and morphine are the only ones left that I know of from those days that are still legally used for true medicinal purposes. When I was a licensed pharmacy apprentice I dispensed codeine often enough to not even bat an eye. Morhpine and cocaine were only used by one Dr. in the area who treated terminal cancer patients during the end of their days. We mixed up this batch of his own creation we called "Brompton's Cocktail". It was basically a modern day batch of laudnum and would knock a large man's privates in the dirt.
Many drugs start off with good intentions but their propensity for abuses becomes an outweighing factor over any beneficial uses. Ecstasy (MDMA) is one such. It was initially made for psychotherapy treatments until it was banned in the 80's because of its overwhelming abuses. It is now a Schedule I drug and completely banned in the United States and most countries.
Most probably don't know that during the years of prohibition, you could still buy drinking alcohol legally with a prescription from a Dr. (which were easily acquired no doubt). This is where the old phrase "it's strictly for medicinal purposes" comes from. REmember Granny Clampett made her own used for her "rhumatizz" (sp?).
There is today's history lesson in pharmacology.
E.
"Next week boys and girls we're going to do some scientific experiments you can do 'round the house." - Robin Williams funnin on Mr. Rogers.
Quinine is still available in tonic water. It is a relatively small dose though.
Works for muscle cramps but not recommended for people with some kinds of heart irregularities.
Paregoric was still available (and still may be) by prescription into the 1960's, a staple of my mom's medicine cabinet for the under 5 crowd.
We used to fly to see my grandparents during the summer, and my sister was terrified of flying, enclosed spaces, large crowds, and people in uniform. Mom would zonk her out in the cab on the way to the airport, and then carry her from plane to plane. The joy of trying to herd 2 kids and carry a third, as well as all the momgear that goes with 3 young children while changing flights at O'Hare is the stuff of legend.
Some oncologists will prescribe a mixture that includes heroin for pain control in their terminally ill patients. It is currently the strongest pain killer of which I am aware.
Its use is extremely restricted.
SJ
Quinine is still a treatment for malaria, which is still out there in the southern US and points south in this hemisphere.
These old ads crack me up!! If we had anything like that in todays world it would be considered child abuse. 😛
Rainer was known for having real funny TV commercials. I was working on a survey crew in the summer of 1977 with this other kid (we were all kids back then) from Eugene Oregon and he was excited because a friend of his had just been paid $500 (!!!!!) for sending in a Rainer Beer commercial idea about a motorcycle wrapping out and the sound being that of Rainer Beer. I thought he was full of it and then that fall this commercial hit the airwaves.
Rainer Motorcycle
Other Rainer Beer commercials:
Frogs
Wild Rainers – Mickey Rooney :
Wild Rainers - Montana :
Wild Rainer roundup:
Whistler:
> Rainer was known for having real funny TV commercials. I was working on a survey crew in the summer of 1977 with this other kid (we were all kids back then) from Eugene Oregon and he was excited because a friend of his had just been paid $500 (!!!!!) for sending in a Rainer Beer commercial idea about a motorcycle wrapping out and the sound being that of Rainer Beer. I thought he was full of it and then that fall this commercial hit the airwaves.
> Rainer Motorcycle
Awww he deserved MORE than $500!!! 😛 I like how Mt. Rainier is off in the sunset in that one commercial. :star:
Mt. Rainier is beautiful. I personally think it's one of the most beautiful mountains EVER, but that's just my personal taste. 🙂
