How time and knowledge changes things

[expat]

No wonder our grandparents/great grandparents were so much happier than this modern rush, rush, busy, busy, how much can I make, my house value increased 9.568% last month

Matt



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.


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 andit would also work as a medicinal treatment.


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..


Produced byMaltine Manufacturing CompanyofNewYork. It was suggested that you should take a full glass with or after every meal... Children should take half a glass.





All stage actors, singers teachers andpreachers had to have them for a maximum performance. Great to "smooth" the voice.


Very popular for children in 1885.


I'm sure this would make them sleep well (not only the Opium, but 46% alcohol!) Also guaranteed a visit from child services and a man in blue!

[BFMF]

Don't forget the tobacco smoke enemas...

http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2 ... 548175/1#1

[WebbPA]

What's absurd is that pot is still illegal where I live.

[expat]

What's absurd is that pot is still illegal where I live.

When I posted this it as meant to be something about yesteryear and not a for/against debate (I guess I should have know better). If it goes down that road I am sure it will only end up being locked as this subject can be as emotive as politics and we have seen how often that ends in tears


Matt

[WebbPA]

That's what I thought as soon as I saw the first post.  Maybe I can work some history into it.

I can't believe that a natural remedy that Queen Victoria used to alleviate menstrual cramps has been swept into illegality along with heroin, opium and codeine.

[a1]

I cannot believe for a time people actually used this stuff and it was sold out in the open.

[Travis]

Well, look at it this way: in one hundred or two hundred years, folks will be flabbergasted to learn that hormone-infused meats were served through windows to peckish motorists.

Strange things only happen in times other than ours.

[Fozzer]

I cannot believe for a time people actually used this stuff and it was sold out in the open.

Me, and my Family, have always stuck solidly to Tetley Tea as our daily heart-warming beverage!.... ...!

Paul.... ...!

http://www.tetley.co.uk/UK/

...and doesn't affect my Driving ability...... ...!

[Hagar]

I immediately thought of how attitudes towards tobacco have changed in a very short time. Until only a few years ago smoking was perfectly acceptable & more people smoked than didn't. Although it's still perfectly legal most people now consider it a filthy & disgusting habit responsible for all manner of complaints. Cigarette smokers are now looked upon as some sort of social underclass while people addicted to the more exotic drugs are treated with sympathy.

I have no axe to grind as I stopped smoking over three years ago.

[expat]

Cigarette smokers are now looked upon as some sort of social underclass while people addicted to the more exotic drugs are treated with sympathy.

Now that is a good observation Hagar.......Got a drug habit, OK we have a program for you and a place to stay and a counsellor who is available 24 hours a day...............Smoker, not in this building and preferably not with 500 miles of it, in fact if you really, really must, one of the other pariahs will tell you because I (as in the royal "We")

[H]

I cannot believe for a time people actually used this stuff and it was sold out in the open.

"Coca" Cola no longer includes its original base ingredient...
Carbonated soft drinks had their beginnings with 'medicinal' elixers. Dr.Pepper was a remedy for constipation (its original base ingredient was prune juice). Moxie was not only a cure-all that preceded modern non-beers as a choice for those trying to sober up, but became a descriptive word in the American dictionary. It was only in honor of the grandmother I never got to know (died before I was born) that I forced myself to make it palatable. Its base ingredient, gentian root, is so bitter that all of the sweetener used doesn't disguise it (how medicinal). One had to have moxie just to drink Moxie.
As to smoking any type of weeds, as expat stated, we don't want a locked debate here. I do like the aroma of some non-burning pipe tobaccos, however, and hemp was once an all-around fabric fiber.

8-)

[machineman9]

Ah yes, I liked how for a while the Coca Cola adverts claimed that they were making the drink 'just like how they used to'. I very much doubt that!

[patchz]

I'm surprised you did not include Laudanum.

Laudanum (pronounced /[ch712]l[ch596][ch720]d([ch601])n[ch601]m/) (laudanum liquidum simplex), also known as opium tincture or thebaic tincture is an alcoholic herbal preparation of opium. It is made by combining ethanol with opium latex or powder. Laudanum contains almost all of the opium alkaloids, including morphine and codeine. A potent narcotic by virtue of its high morphine concentration, laudanum was historically used to treat a variety of ailments, but its principal use was as an analgesic and antitussive. Until the early 20th century, laudanum was sold without a prescription and was a constituent of many patent medicines. Today, the manufacture, distribution and use of laudanum are strictly regulated. Contrary to popular belief, laudanum is available by prescription in the United States and the United Kingdom, although the drug's medicinal uses are generally confined to controlling diarrhea, alleviating pain, and easing withdrawal symptoms in infants who were born to mothers addicted to heroin or other opioids. While the terms "laudanum" and "tincture of opium" are generally interchangeable, in contemporary medical practice, the latter is used almost exclusively.

[olderndirt]

Perhaps a little off subject, one of my childhood monthly highlights was a liberal dose of castor oil - the lubrication of choice for rotary engines during WW1.

[H]

[quote]Perhaps a little off subject, one of my childhood monthly highlights was a liberal dose of castor oil - the lubrication of choice for rotary engines during WW1.