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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2009 17:20:48 GMT
Pharmaceutical and other health obsessed companies are constantly working on new products to make us better. This is the place to show them and talk about them. For a start, here are the first three: Lloyd Cocaine Toothache Drops In the US, cocaine was sold over the counter until 1914 and was commonly found in products like toothache drops, dandruff remedies and medicinal tonics. Metcalf's Coca Wine Coca wine combined wine with cocaine, producing a compound now known as cocaethylene, which, when ingested, is nearly as powerful a stimulant as cocaine. Bayer Heroin From 1898 through to 1910, heroin was marketed as a cough suppressant by trusted companies like Bayer -- alongside the company's other new product, Aspirin.
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Post by cigalechanta on Jul 9, 2009 17:31:35 GMT
LOl...where do you find this stuff-love the first ad.
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Post by cigalechanta on Jul 9, 2009 17:32:44 GMT
What do you think about the Master diet? running dialog in the 'Lounge."
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 9, 2009 17:32:45 GMT
My cousins owned a general store/post office in very rural Mississippi. I was visiting there in the early seventies and browsing the patent medicines. There were still products on the shelves proudly displaying the ingredient opium! The stuff was already antique by then.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 9, 2009 17:51:00 GMT
In my parent's medicine chest I found Paregoric, containing Opium. It was an old-looking bottle, but probably didn't predate building the house in 1950. As it was the 1970's, I pondered whether it was possible to distill out the active ingredient... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ParegoricBTW, cocaine was once the active ingredient in Coca Cola, and it continued to contain some until 1929. www.snopes.com/cokelore/cocaine.asp
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2009 18:12:26 GMT
Children need specialized products. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup Contained 65 mg of morphine per fluid ounce. "For children teething."
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Post by spindrift on Jul 9, 2009 20:16:11 GMT
Those were the days ;D
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Post by Kimby on Jul 9, 2009 23:22:07 GMT
Do people in other parts of the world give their kids Benadryl (an antihistimine) to make them sleep on airplanes?
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Post by traveler63 on Jul 10, 2009 2:35:26 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2009 4:47:47 GMT
Does it slay dragons or something?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2009 5:27:09 GMT
Nembutal Suppositories Brand name for pentobarbital. "When little patients balk at scary, disquieting examinations...When they need prompt sedation (and the oral route isn't feasible)...try Nembutal sodium suppositories...There is little tendency toward morning-after hangover."
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 10, 2009 5:38:12 GMT
Yikes! Judging from the artwork, that ad must be no older than the 1950s.
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Post by spindrift on Jul 10, 2009 13:55:47 GMT
Ah! That reminds me of when I went to live in a convent in France when I was 17. I was terrified of the suppositories. I can't remember being made to have one but I was always worried about it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2009 16:58:04 GMT
Quaalude-300 Brand name for the now-illegal sedative methaqualone. "Now the physician has one less tired, sleepy and apprehensive patient to contend with." (Isn't that the sort of smile they have in the movies just before the guy goes to the closet to get the shotgun to blow his family's heads off?)
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Post by Kimby on Jul 10, 2009 17:14:02 GMT
That's the sort of smile they have just before they collapse face-first in their oatmeal!
Having been around folks who took "ludes" for fun, I think the risk is more to themselves. My cousin was working on a car under the influence and fell asleep lying under it, letting the car roll over him in his stupor. He would have been totally unable to get up and attack someone, with a gun or a tire iron.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 10, 2009 17:33:01 GMT
My question is: what is the wife on?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2009 21:39:27 GMT
Norodin Brand name for methamphetamine. "The selective cerebral action of Norodin is useful in dispelling the shadows of mild mental depression." Biphetamine A combination of two amphetamines; known popularly as "black beauties." Marketed for its weight loss benefits.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 11, 2009 0:45:48 GMT
And look how nice and slender the wife is! A little drawn, perhaps, but hey! The daughter is somewhat prematurely aged looking. That's probably from studying really hard.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2009 4:51:26 GMT
Dr. Miles' Nervine "Since I have been taking Nervine, nothing bothers me." Dr. Batty's Asthma Cigarettes Cigarettes with unknown contents claimed to provide temporary relief of everything from asthma to colds, canker sores and bad breath. "Not recommended for children under 6."
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 12, 2009 4:56:42 GMT
I love Mary's expression! This lady didn't fool with methamphetamine to keep her figure!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2009 6:01:43 GMT
I'm glad that the tapeworms are "easy to swallow."
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Post by bjd on Jul 12, 2009 9:02:53 GMT
"Sanitized tapeworms"? Actually, just the other day a friend told me her husband had a tapeworm from eating uncooked meat. Even after the worm came out and he was treated, he has been feeling sick. So I can imagine how the people using these treatments must have felt. In fact, he didn't lose weight either.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2009 9:25:19 GMT
My mother had a tapeworm once. It didn't make her sick, but one day she discovered moving noodle-type things on the toilet paper. Apparently the pharmacy gives you the mother of all laxatives and the creature is really enormous and impressive when it is expelled.
I have never seen one myself and not really anxious to discover one some day.
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Post by bjd on Jul 12, 2009 9:42:19 GMT
My friend told me that the doctor gave some really strong medicine taken twice within several hours which kills anything left in the gut. But apparently you can still feel sick afterwards, although the doctor can't explain why. I have never seen one either.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 12, 2009 15:39:27 GMT
I would imagine that the medicine itself -- essentially poison -- is what makes the patient feel sick. Heartworm treatment for dogs does the same thing.
Years ago a friend told me that after returning from traveling in an under-developed country, her husband saw what he supposed to be worms in his stool. He called his mother-in-law into the bathroom to confirm this diagnosis.
His mother-in-law!
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Post by gyllenhaalic on Jul 12, 2009 19:15:39 GMT
"Canker Sours" cured by asthma cigarettes! Haha!
On second thought, I will try some of that cocaine wine, though.
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Post by hwinpp on Jul 13, 2009 3:31:51 GMT
Don't talk about worms. I've had more than I care for since coming to Cambodia, including a tapeworm, other assorted worms and ring worm (actually a fungus). I'm now taking some kind of supermedicine that gets rid of them and protects you for 6 months! So eating all kinds of things again
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2009 5:52:45 GMT
Pantopon Roche Injectable Opium "Try Pantopon in place of morphine for dependable, optimum relief of pain." ...and there's nothing like fresh-squeezed poppy juice.
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Post by Jazz on Jul 13, 2009 6:30:58 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 13, 2009 6:39:40 GMT
And you can tell loose women by their hideous hats.
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