The Good ‘Ol Days

I’m thinking the production of a time-machine is in order….

Bayer’s Heroin

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 with strong cough.

 

Coca Wine

Metcalf 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…..hey, what’s good for the pope is good for me!

 

Maltine

Produced by Maltine Manufacturing Company of New York . It was suggested that you should take a full glass with or after every meal. Children should 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

Gee, I really hope this helps you breath better.  Oh hell, who cares really?!

 

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 it relieve the pain, but it also made the children happy!  Perhaps we need this back on the market for all those “emo kids”.

 

Opium for babies

I’m sure this would make them sleep well (not only the Opium, but 46% alcohol!!!!!)

And to add Pete’s spin on this:

“Our grandparents and parents have tried to guilt-trip us into believing they walked a thousand miles, barefoot through the snow to buy a small loaf of bread and a potato which then had to feed their whole family of 48, who all lived in a tiny one-room cottage built out of twigs by your grandfather… but in actual fact they were really sitting in their lounge-room the whole time so doped-up, that the entire adventure only happened in their drug-filled heads. “

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