Saturday, July 21, 2012

Sent To Me By Dani ~ Oh My Dear ~ What a Happy Lot They Were Back Then!

'Why Our Great-Grandparents Had Fond Memories Of Their Youth...'

(I'm surprised 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..

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 a bottle with him all the time.
He awarded Angelo Mariani (the producer) with a Vatican gold medal..


photo of an advertisement for coca wine
Maltine with Coca Wine was 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.

Opium for Asthma:
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.

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


Opium for newborns.
This would for sure make them sleep well -- not only the opium, but also 46% alcohol!


It's no wonder they were called,
'The Good Old Days'!

From cradle to grave...
Everyone Was Stoned!

10 comments:

  1. lol what a great piece of history!

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  2. LMAO!!! Makes me wonder why everyone in old B&W photos look so serious. They should all be grinning cheesy grins!!

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  3. I have to save this blog. Give you a gold star

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  4. Oh that's too funny..I would have been a delirious asthmatic!

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  5. I'm glad we know better these days. I can imagine some tragedies..people getting addicted.

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  6. yep even cigarettes were thought to be something healthy!! - nice little post thanks - Love hat house above - what a beautiful building!! What is it??

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  7. Coca Cola was, of course, named for it's cocaine content.
    And Freud was very high on the idea that cocaine was the perfect solution for morphine addition.
    And hemp was banned because it made such good paper that the owners of forests, like William Randolph Hearst the newspaper magnate, would have been worth a lot less money which is why he
    got one of his relatives-by-marriage, Harry Anslinger, to start his campaign against 'the evils of marijuana.' (Hemp does make high quality paper - the Constitution was printed on it and it's still holding up pretty well. Not to mention that weeds are a lot cheaper than trees to make into paper and also a lot less destructive to our environmnent.)

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  8. Coca Cola was, of course, named for it's cocaine content.
    And Freud was very high on the idea that cocaine was the perfect solution for morphine addition.
    And hemp was banned because it made such good paper that the owners of forests, like William Randolph Hearst the newspaper magnate, would have been worth a lot less money which is why he
    got one of his relatives-by-marriage, Harry Anslinger, to start his campaign against 'the evils of marijuana.' (Hemp does make high quality paper - the Constitution was printed on it and it's still holding up pretty well. Not to mention that weeds are a lot cheaper than trees to make into paper and also a lot less destructive to our environmnent.)

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