Posts Tagged ‘Fun’
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Saturday, October 17th, 2009
No Wonder Great Grandma Had Such a Happy Childhood
Saturday, June 20th, 2009Bayer ’s Heroin
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 with strong cough.
Coca Wine
Metcalf 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 Maltine Manufacturing Company of New York . It was suggested that you should take a full glass with or after every meal. Children should 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:
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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 they relieved the pain, they made the children happy!
Opium for new-borns
I’m sure this would make them sleep well (not only the Opium, but 46% alcohol!!!!!)
Welcome to the Stressbuster1 Blog!
Monday, February 23rd, 2009Just like Stressbuster1.com, this website is here to bust your stress, make you laugh and help your day to go alittle better. The only difference is that this Blog is more heavily dependent upon your participation. The main theme is stress-buster. How to take the stress out of our everyday lives with humor, fun and finding common thoughts and beliefs. Send us your comments, thoughts, links, ideas, etc. Please, no spam or porn or hate speak. Thanks!