Why Our Great-Grandparents Were So Happy ...

Why Our Great-Grandparents
Were So Happy ...

Bayer’s Heroin

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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, anyone?

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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:

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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.


Maltine:

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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:

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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:

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No comments.

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 happy!


Opium for new-borns:

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I'm sure this would make them sleep well
(not only the Opium, but 46% alcohol!) 
That's 92 proof! 
Do you realize that most of our spirits
(gin, vodka, scotch, etc.)
are only 80 proof!  

No wonder they were called ,,,
The Good Old Days!!