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[jeff of pa]

1930's North Carolina

 

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[Mackaydon]

To be applied on Christmas trees, but also suggested for applying around miniature manger and village decorations, on interior window sills, fireplace mantels, wreaths, and countless other locations to create a festive effect.
Don in SoCal

 

[Mackaydon]

Between 1898 and 1910, Bayer advertised it as a cure for headaches and general malaise, and it was sold in cough syrup for children. It was even given to babies to help them sleep.
Don in SoCal

 

[DizzyDigger]

 

[Oregon Viking]

I think i may be a bit young to know these products/ads....

 

[DizzyDigger]

I think i may be a bit young to know these products/ads....

Ditto..that was 13 years before I was hatched...

 

[jeff of pa]

 

[jeff of pa]

 

[Mackaydon]

Don in SoCal

 

[Mackaydon]

Metcalf’s Coca Wine
Coca wine combined wine with cocaine, producing a compound now known as cocaethylene, which, when ingested, is nearly as powerful a stimulant as cocaine (or so I've heard).
Don in SoCal

 

[Mackaydon]

Pantopon Roche Injectable Opium
“Try Pantopon in place of morphine for dependable, optimum relief of pain.”
Don in SoCal

 

[Mackaydon]

Cosadein
This cough remedy contained, among other things, codeine, chloroform and cannabis.
Don in SoCal

 

[pepperj]

 

[The Rebel]

Interesting stuff. Today CBD, Hemp, Mushrooms and Marijuana are the new snake oils.

 

[Mackaydon]

Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral
Depending on which list of contents you reference, this cure for colds, coughs and “all diseases of the throat and lungs” contained either morphine or heroin.
Don in SoCal

 

[pepperj]

 

[Mackaydon]

Chloroform and Alcohol; now there's a cocktail you rarely hear of.
Don in SoCal.

 

[pepperj]

Interesting stuff. Today CBD, Hemp, Mushrooms and Marijuana are the new snake oils.

What is old is new again.
Then again the reason for a lot of natural product restrictions were because of the manufactures of other products.

The Machines for processing hemp improved and became state of the art in the early 1930’s and this was a significant threat to the powers that be including Hearst newspapers and their huge amount of trees.

It was also a threat to Dupont who would be set to have serious competition from hemp that would seriously reduced their turnover. This was also a worry to Duponts banker, Andrew Mellon, of Mellon bank, Pittsburgh, who would also be set to lose out.

Dupont had new patents for synthetic fibres, paper made from wood pulp along with their other plastic and textiles enterprises.

 

[jeff of pa]

I Used to have an old Bottle at Home. In my early Teens .
I Used it every time I Had a toothache .
I'd soak my tooth in it
I Had a Toothache almost every Day
I Never read the Label till I Ran out & Tried to Find more at the Pharmacy. When they told me No I Had to Check Why

 

[pepperj]

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I Used to have an old Bottle at Home. In my early Teens .
I Used it every time I Had a toothache .
I'd soak my tooth in it
I Had a Toothache almost every Day
I Never read the Label till I Ran out & Tried to Find more at the Pharmacy. When they told me No I Had to Check Why

Add some alcohol to that brown and you'll be happy I prescribed this remedy to you today.