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    Why our great granparents were happier than we were ?

    'Why Our Great-Grandparents Have Such Fond Memories Of Their Youth...'
    (I'm surprised that they remember anything!!)

    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.

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    Coca Wine, anyone?
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    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.

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    Mariani Wine.
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    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 Maria ni (the producer) with a Vatican gold medal.

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    Maltine.
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    Produced by the Maltine Manufacturing Company of NewYork.
    It was suggested that you should take a full glass with or after every meal.
    Children should only take half a glass.

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    A paper weight:
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    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.

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    Opium for Asthma:
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    At 40% alcohol plus 3 grams of opium per tablet,
    it didn't cure you, but you didn't care...

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    Cocaine Tablets (1900).
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    All stage actors, singers, teachers and preachers had to have them for a maximum performance.
    Great to 'smooth' the voice.

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    Cocaine drops for toothache.
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    Very popular for children in 1885.
    Not only did they relieve the pain, they made the children very happy!
    Opium for new-borns.
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    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...
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    Why our great granparents were happier than we were ?

    Ain't it the truth!! No wonder our vanishing 'oldest' generation remembers them fondly.

    When our daughter was little, she was prone to bronchitis, URI, and pneumonia. The old pediatricians (brothers) I took her too had their own formula for a cough medicine, mixed specially by 'Whupper' Lee at his pharmacy. It was bright yellow, and thick as molasses! I took a dose once because I too had a bad cough and cold, and was high ALL day!! No wonder she remembers her childhood fondly. :H

    And the most famous drink of all.............snopes.com: Cocaine in Coca-Cola
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      Why our great granparents were happier than we were ?

      rubywillow;942451 wrote: Ain't it the truth!! No wonder our vanishing 'oldest' generation remembers them fondly.

      When our daughter was little, she was prone to bronchitis, URI, and pneumonia. The old pediatricians (brothers) I took her too had their own formula for a cough medicine, mixed specially by 'Whupper' Lee at his pharmacy. It was bright yellow, and thick as molasses! I took a dose once because I too had a bad cough and cold, and was high ALL day!! No wonder she remembers her childhood fondly. :H

      And the most famous drink of all.............snopes.com: Cocaine in Coca-Cola
      My little sister got completely buzzed on cough syrup when she was sick once...my mom was concerned when she heard her singing in bed after dosing her during a bad cold!

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        Why our great granparents were happier than we were ?

        Mario : Maybe your right and maybe your wrong.....their dead and were alive.....fiquire which one has one out ! Ha! IAD
        ?Be who you are and say what you feel because
        those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.?
        Dr. Seuss

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