This is why our great grandparents were so much happier than we are

Jillaroo

Jillaroo

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Mid North Coast NSW Australia
THIS IS WHY OUR GREAT GRANDPARENTS WERE SO MUCH HAPPIER THAN WE ARE

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 !!!

Look at the cool stuff they had back then!



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?



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.


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.


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:


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:


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

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 did they relieve the pain,
They made the children very happy!

Opium for newborns.


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!
 

A pharmacist in a town I'd best not mention used to concoct his own cough syrup potion and sell it. Luber's Lung Linctus it was called.
That stuff was freakin' dynamite! I used to stock up on a few bottles every year I drove through the town on the way to Qld. It rendered the flu a blissful experience I can vouch for that.

Last time I called in for supplies, around 1996, it was no longer available. Some nark must have reported it or something. He was still there though so whatever he put it in wasn't a jailable offence. Damned shame the supply dried up, but I made that last bottle last 2 years.
 

Even when I first qualified, we used heroin and cocaine in various mixtures....usually for pain relief.
difficult to make if one had a cold; one sneeze and the powder went everywhere.
we don't use them any more, apparently injections are better...
 
Vivjen said:
Even when I first qualified, we used heroin and cocaine in various mixtures....usually for pain relief.
difficult to make if one had a cold; one sneeze and the powder went everywhere.
we don't use them any more, apparently injections are better...
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What do you mean when you first qualified? I don't understand that.
 
Gosh, wish we still had some of those available to us, lol.

So what if it's addicting? I have to take synthesis every day for the rest of my like...why not heroin?

Anything that makes you feel good is regulated..lexcept alcohol and I don't drink...boohoo.
 
True....trouble is you tend to need more and more, and heroin is short-acting.
i remember a couple of years ago there was a world shortage of heroin injections, because poppy growers, especially in the golden triangle, made more profit selling it illegally than legally!
 
Vivjen said:
True....trouble is you tend to need more and more, and heroin is short-acting.
i remember a couple of years ago there was a world shortage of heroin injections, because poppy growers, especially in the golden triangle, made more profit selling it illegally than legally!
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Yes, that is the problem with narcotics, after a short while you never get the feeling you had the first times and they keep on trying and usually end up OD'd.
 
I hope all your family enjoy pharmacy; it changed so much over the last 40 odd years here; that is why I retired.
 
Yes, they do. I imagine it has changed a lot here also.

My grandfather had his own pharmacy in Hungary way back when...he was born in 1898, and when he came to America he had to retake his license at the age of 60 and you can imagine how difficult that was for someone whose first language wasn't English plus all the new meds etc., but he passed it and continued working in Chicago til he was in his 80's. I was so very proud of him.
 
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