@historyinmemes It's hard to cough when you stop breathing.
In 1888, cough syrup produced in Baltimore contained the following ingredients: alcohol, cannabis, chloroform, and morphine. In less than a decade, Bayer successfully synthesized aspirin and heroin. Heroin, derived from the German word "heroisch" meaning "heroic," was marketed by Bayer as a less addictive cough suppressant than morphine. If you were to open the 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica from 1910 and look up "morphine," you'd find the following passage: "In the cough of phthisis, minute doses of morphine are of service, but in this particular disease, morphine is frequently better replaced by codeine or by heroin, which checks irritable coughs without the narcotism following upon the administration of morphine." In 1924, the US Congress banned the selling, manufacturing, and importing of heroin due to its high addiction rate. Bayer lost its trademark rights to heroin and aspirin in 1919, following Germany's defeat in World War 1.
@historyinmemes Released in 1894, this is the first publicly sold bottle of Coca-Cola, which contained around 3.5 grams of cocaine.
@historyinmemes Like the “Skillfully combined with a number of…..” 😂
@historyinmemes Imagine having a cough and taking a cough syrup only to get high later 😂 High cough 😂 No wonder sir Albert Einstein kept inventing new things
@historyinmemes Bayer 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
@historyinmemes If anyone hasn't been, there's a lovely recreation of an old Baltimore pharmacy at the Baltimore Museum of Industry.