Sunday, June 28, 2009

Old Time Medicine #2 - You KNOW it works! (Coca Wine)



Coca Wine

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.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Old Time Medicine #1 - You KNOW it works! (Heroin. Completely Non-Addictive)



Bayer's Heroin

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.