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The Good Old Days
I  am all for turning the clock back.......

Subject: WHY OUR GREAT GRANDPARENTS WERE HAPPIER
 
 
 
 
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!
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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 suffering with a strong cough.


Coca Wine, anyone?

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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.

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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 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:

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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:

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At 40% alcohol plus 3 grams of opium per tablet.
It didn't cure you... but you didn't care!


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 very happy!


Opium for newborns.

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I'm sure this would make them sleep well. 
(not only the Opium, but also the 46% alcohol)


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


From cradle to  grave... everyone was STONED  !!!
 





 

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