Mrs Winslow’s soothing syrup
This stuff was compound by Mrs. Charlotte N. Winslow and first commercialize by her son - in - law Jeremiah Curtis and Benjamin A. Perkins in Bangor , Maine in 1849 . It incorporate 65 mg morphia sulphate per fluid ounce ( 0.03 l ) , atomic number 11 carbonate , spritis foeniculi and greenish blue ammonia .
It was “ likely to soothe any homo or animal ” , and often used on restless or teething small children .
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Cocaine Toothache Drops (1885)
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Bayer’s Heroin
Two decades after heroin ’s invention in 1874 by C. R. Alder Wright , a chemist ( Felix Hoffman ) of the German pharmaceutical ship’s company Bayer re - synthesized heroin while he was assay to produce codeine .
The company decided to market the drug as a morphia substitute and cough appetite suppressant between 1898 and 1910 . It turned out that heroin was highly addictive , and four times stronger than morphia . The telephone number of junkie originate out of restraint , and Bayer ceased yield of the “ medicine ” in 1913 .
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Coca-Cola
Originally intend as a patent of invention medicament when it was invented in 1886 by John Pemberton . He used five ounces of coca leaf ( 141.7 g ) per gal of sirup in the first five years , but the company was buy by businessman Asa Griggs Candler in 1891 , who claimed his pattern contained only 0.5 troy ounce . ( 14.2 g )
Over the next twelve years , Coca - Cola control an estimated 9 milligrams of cocaine per glass . After 1904 , the fellowship started using leftover of the cocain - descent unconscious process , instead of fresh leaves .
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Allen’s Cocaine Tablets
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Forced March cocaine tablets (1897-1924)
Ernest Shackleton took this hooey to Antarctica in 1909 , as did Captain Scott in 1910 , but it was used in World War I , too .
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Heroin hydroclor
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Indian and American Cannabis by Parke, Davis & Co.
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Heroin hydrochloride by Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis
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Allenbury’s Throat Pastilles
“ Containing menthol , cocaine , ruddy gingiva , eucalyptus , guaiacum , rhatany , potash , borax , methanal and cinnamon oil colour ” – according to theHerb Museum , Vancouver .
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Ferratin and Lactophenin, by C. F. Boehringer & Soehne
One of the effective depressant around the turn of the century was a special mix of cocaine and quinine plait with iron .
Vin Mariani, the Bordeaux wine with coca leaves
Litography by Jules Chéret , 1894
This patent of invention practice of medicine was created by a Gallic chemist , Angelo Mariani in 1863 .
The ethanol in the wine-colored evoke the cocaine from the coca leave-taking , altering the crapulence ’s effect . The Vin Mariani contained 6 mg of cocaine per runny snow leopard , ( 0.028 cubic decimetre ) but the export drink contained 7.2 magnesium per troy ounce to compete with the similar drinks in the United States .
Some notable people and royalty wish the Mariani wine-colored , Queen Victoria , Pope Leo XIII , Pope Saint Pius X , Jules Verne , Alexandre Dumas , Emile Zola , Thomas Edison and Ulysses S. Grant , among others .
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Theodore Metcalf’s Coca Wine
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Vin Des Incas poster by Alphonse Mucha
Glyckeron Glyco-Heroin (-Smith)
For the treatment of coughs , bronchitis , white plague , asthma , laryngitis , pneumonia and whooping coughing .
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Cocaine and chlorate pills to cure sore mouth, throats and lungs by Diego Gibson
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Stickney and Poor’s paregoric
A mixture of opium and inebriant helped babe and little nestling to fall asleep .
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Ascatco
“ Treatment for bronchial asthma , bronchitis , hay fever , rose fever and other diseases of the respiratory reed organ . ” The Ascatco contains 13 % alcohol , opium and arsenious acid .
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