In the early 20th Century, companies were permitted to sell anything to anyone, no matter how dangerous, regardless of the consequences. However, dont be misguided by its very well packaging and very cute as well as sincere advertising.
#Heroin was not only legal
For years, the pharmaceutical company Bayer held the trademark for the word “heroin” and sold the drug as a cough and headache remedy’s. However, it is less widely known that Bayer promoted heroin for use in children suffering from coughs, colds and “irritation” as late as 1912, according to an anti-Bayer watchdog group. That was years after reports first began to surface in 1899 that patients were developing a “tolerance” for Heroin, and that addicts in the U.S. were clamoring for more.
One ad, urging the use of “Heroina” to treat bronchitis in kids, shows two unattended children reaching for a bottle of the opiate across a kitchen table. Another shows a mom spoon feeding it to her sickly little girl. “La tos desaparece,” the ad says — “the cough disappears”. How cute of the mom feeding her kid with a drug!
# Once upon a time, smoking a cigarette was cure to Asthama
Smoke a cigarette! Not a tobacco cigarette (though those were advertised as “healthy” for decades), but a herbal remedy. While a few components of these cigarettes may have affected a degree of temporary relief for those with bronchitis or asthma, the long-term effects of smoking anything are known to be detrimental, especially to those whose lungs are already diseased. Inhaled smoke is not the same as simply inhaling the herbal vapors; the smoke contains irritants and carcinogens that can wreak havoc on the lungs, even in healthy people. I wonder, how cool the patient be looking at that time by smoking weed.
# Cocaine was used to cure toothache problem
The innocence of the kids in the advertisment says it all, how happy they are after gulping Cocaine.
# Coca-laced wine
And the below thing was written to advertise it to the mothers.
This stuff was compounded by Mrs. Charlotte N. Winslow and first marketed by her son-in-law Jeremiah Curtis and Benjamin A. Perkins in Bangor, Maine in 1849. It contained 65 mg morphine sulphate per fluid ounce (0.03 l), sodium carbonate, spritis foeniculi and aqua ammonia. It was “likely to soothe any human or animal”, and often used on restless or teething small children. In 1911, the American Medical Association put out a publication called “Nostrums And Quackery” where, in a section called “Baby Killers”, it incriminated Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. It was not withdrawn from sale in the UK until 1930.
# Allen’s Cocaine Tablets
