Tag: Cold

And you thought NyQuil knocked you out? Take a look at the ingredients in this old bottle of cough syrup. It might not cure your cough, but after a swig or two you won’t even remember you have one!

Translated to English from source:

Since the last third of the nineteenth century to the early twentieth century America proliferated different medicinal remedies retail. Some of these emerging companies laid the foundations for Big Pharma today.

This is the case of Kohler Company Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, which in 1988 sold “One Night” cough syrup recommended for children and adults. Its label read it’s composition:

• Alcohol (less than 1%),
• Cannabis Indica F.E. (a.k.a. marijuana)
• Chloroform
• Morphia, Sulph. (a.k.a morphine)

Note how these ingredients are “Skillfully combined with a number of other ingredients.”

The recommended dose for children was one teaspoon, 3 times a day combined with sleeping in bed. For children from 5 years, 15 drops for children 1 year, 5 drops. In severe cases, administer twice. Adult dose: Half a teaspoon three times daily and at bedtime.

The name of this medicinal preparation “One Night” no less curious. Did this mean that there would be no more night since one would not wake up in the morning? … Wacky!

This remedy continued to sell to the public until 1934, when the Consumer Protection Agency. (US Food and Drug Administration) took action on the matter. It gave judgment finding that labeling statements in relation to the curative and therapeutic effects of the article were false and fraudulent, and ordering that the product was banned and destroyed.

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