Have you ever wondered why our great grandparents all had such fond memories of their youth?

 
Well... I'm surprised they  remembered anything at all!!!

Forget Tums &  Tylenol.

Forget Aleve &  Benedryl. 
Look at  the cool stuff they had back then! 
A bottle of Bayer's  'Heroin'.
Between 1890 and 1910 heroin was  sold as a  non-addictive substitute formorphine..
It was also used to treat  children suffering with a strong cough.

 Coca Wine,  anyone? 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.Mariani  wine (1875) was the most famous Coca wine of it's  time. Pope Leo XIIIused to carry one  bottle with him all the time He awarded Angelo Mariani (the  producer) with a Vatican gold medal.

Maltine.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. 


A  paperweight 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: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..I'm sure  this would make them sleep well. (not only the Opium, but also  the 46% alcohol) It's no  damn wonder they were called, "The Good Old Days". From cradle  to grave... everyone was STONED  !!

From Duckie, of course.

I worked in dad's drugstore in the 1960s. He had some old stock from the previous owner. When we weren't busy, one of my jobs was to dust the shelves. One of the products was Lydia Pinkham's Tonic For Women. I may not have the name correct but I noticed at the time the high percentage of alcohol it had. I just searched it and it was 18% alcohol. -Heather