Some interesting ingredients in this cough medicine manufactured in Baltimore in 1888 (image from Classic Pics). We now know this cocktail would do far more than cure your cough! No worries though, if you got addicted to the alcohol or morphine they would use cocaine to treat the addiction, it's no joke, he said...a real Freudian slip, of course at the time it was a new 'wonder drug' but he had a habit of being wrong about cocaine:
"The treatment of morphine addiction with coca does not, therefore, result merely in the exchange of one kind of addiction for another – it does not turn the morphine addict into a coquero; the use of coca is only temporary… I am rather inclined to assume that coca has a directly antagonistic effect on morphine…" [Link]
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