WHY OUR GREAT-GRANDPARENTS WERE SOOO HAPPY...TALK ABOUT THE GOOD OLD DAYS

> 'Why Our Great-Grandparents Have Such Fond Memories Of Their Youth...'

> A bottle of Bayer's 'Heroin'.
> (I'm surprised that they remember anything!!)
> 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 paper weight:

> A paper weight 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 new-borns.

> I'm sure this would make them sleep well (not only the Opium, but also 46% alcohol)!
> It's no wonder they were called, 'The Good Old Days'!!
> From cradle to grave...
> Everyone Was Stoned!!!