Yes, the company that is perhaps now most associated with aspirin once made and marketed this. Original post here.
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More of a thing that was once as legal as table salt.
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Reminds me of the last episode of the new Cinemax series “The Knick” about life in NYC’s Knickerbocker Hospital. One of the main characters is totally in thrall to cocaine to the point of senselessness. His friends have him committed to a sanitarium where he can ‘take a cure’. The attending physician talks about the new, safe wonder drug used to help wean addicts off of opium/cocaine and then the camera focuses on an innocuous bottle labeled heroin like the above image.
Bayer did trademark the drug under that name because of the supposed “heroic” effects it had on its users.
Of course everyone remembers at it’s inception Coca-Cola really was the real thing, with a pinch of the stuff. Years ago there was an interesting cable show called “Wild West Tech” with the Carradine Bros. Keith & David. On an episode about prostitution, it mentioned how prevalent laudanum use was among ‘soiled doves’ and suggested heavy usage led to the occasional overdose, sometimes leading to death, maybe suicidally, maybe not.
Many 19th and early 20th century medicinal tonics had all sorts drugs in them, sometimes in terrifyingly high dosages. No wonder there was an eventual need for the FDA.