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Thread ID: 114696	2010-12-13 20:37:00	Happy Daze: Interesting Medications From The Past.	Billy T (70)	PC World Chat

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1161412	2010-12-13 20:37:00	Bayer's Heroin: Between 1890 and 1910, bottles of Bayer's heroin were sold as a non-addictive substitute for morphine. It was also used to treat children with bad coughs. 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. Mariani Wine: Mariani wine (1875) was the most famous Coca wine of its 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: Produced by Maltine Manufacturing Company of New York . It contained cocaine and it was suggested that you should take a full glass with or after every meal. Children should take half a glass. Cocaine tablets (1900): All stage actors, singers teachers and preachers had to have them for a maximum performance. Great to "smooth" the voice. Cocaine drops for toothache: Very popular for children in 1885. Not only they relieved the pain, they made the children happy! Opium for new-borns: I'm sure this would make them sleep well (not only the Opium, but 46% alcohol!) Opium was also given for Asthma. And of course, when Coca-Cola was launched, the two key ingredients were cocaine (benzoylmethyl ecgonine) and caffeine. And we worry about giving Aspirin or Paracetemol to children today!! Cheers Billy 8-{) :waughh:	Billy T (70)
1161413	2010-12-13 20:48:00	More recently, as a child I was given Lane's Emulsion, Magnesia, Maltexo, AktaVite, and horror of horrors, cod liver oil! There may well have been others too, as persons of a certain age, such as Cicero will remember. :waughh:	Richard (739)
1161414	2010-12-13 20:58:00	Terminally ill patient in Wellington Hospital were being fed Brompton Cocktail in the '60s Morphine, Cocaine and Brandy.	Snorkbox (15764)
1161415	2010-12-13 21:41:00	More recently, as a child I was given Lane's Emulsion, Magnesia, Maltexo, AktaVite, and horror of horrors, cod liver oil! There may well have been others too, as persons of a certain age, such as Cicero will remember . :waughh: Formula for Lanes Emulsion: Early in 1898 a formula for a cod liver oil emulsion which seemed to fill all requirements was devised . This formula differed from other emulsion formulas by the addition of two ingredients, one, finest quality 'Beechwood Creosote' a medicine*; and the other, fresh eggs, a food . Here was provided all the difference between the ordinary, old style, unreliable emulsions, and a perfect emulsion . Cod Liver Oil plus eggs, preserved in creosote, what a magical formula, and so pleasant and smooth on the palate . . . . . . . . . Never tried it myself, maybe my parents were smarter (and more humane) than I thought . Cheers Billy 8-{) *Beechwood creosote is a disinfectant!	Billy T (70)
1161416	2010-12-13 21:45:00	When I wuz a kid, we had Paragoric for teething - it was opium . I can still remember the taste of it - and I think my mom liked the long quiet time she'd get when she let us have some . I remember some of the nastier palliatives, but interestingly enough, Mexico is still using lead oxide (Red Lead) for teething on their children and they also use lead oxide to color their candies and confections red or bright orange . The US seizes hundreds of pounds of this stuff in the Mexican markets in the US where parents still give this lead and arsenic to their kids for stomach ailments and general dyspepsia . My grandfather used spider webs to halt bleeding from wounds around his home and I guess it worked as no-one bled to death in the family of which I am aware anyway . Got an earache? Get the youngest male child to urinate in your ear . It will either cure it or give you something else to worry over instead . Of course, birth control was an interesting subject in my mother's family home . If you jump up and down on one foot, drinking a Coke for thirty minutes, you would not get preggo . I guess they didn't have enough Coke in the house for such emergencies . They had 17 kids .	SurferJoe46 (51)
1161417	2010-12-13 21:48:00	Don't foret the odd dose of Castor oil or Epsom salts. :(	Snorkbox (15764)
1161418	2010-12-13 23:40:00	My old man spent a few years posted in the Caribbean in the 80's and did a fair amount of travelling while there to South America . When he came back to NZ he brought Coca Tea in tea bags (readily available as a herbal remedy at the time I guess - not sure about now) . I'm not a tea drinker, but I couldn't let the opportunity pass me by - to tell the truth, I was disappointed . Tasted like grass and had no noticeable effect . . . . :dogeye:	johcar (6283)
1161419	2010-12-13 23:43:00	My Grandmother in England was prescribed Guinness as an Iron supplement when she was expecting my Mum. Apparently her Dr gave her the option of Iron tablets or a half pint of stout to be taken once daily she chose the stout as more readily available (they lived in the wops)	gary67 (56)
1161420	2010-12-13 23:57:00	Possibly William Bailey's Radithor takes the biscuit. Radithor In 1918, Bailey claimed that radium added to drinking water could be used to treat dozens of conditions, from mental illness and headaches to diabetes, anemia, constipation, and asthma.[2] Bailey became rich from the sale of Radithor, a well known patent medicine/snake oil that is possibly the best known example of radioactive quackery. en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org	Terry Porritt (14)
1161421	2010-12-13 23:58:00	More recently, as a child I was given Lane's Emulsion, Magnesia, Maltexo, AktaVite, and horror of horrors, cod liver oil! There may well have been others too, as persons of a certain age, such as Cicero will remember . :waughh: Had them all . Liked them all except the Cod liver oil . Do you remember that Maltexo came in orange flavour . In later years Maltexo was used for home brew . The orange flavoured Maltexo gave the brew a real funny taste .	tut (12033)
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