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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Healthbolt

Healthbolt Historic: Vintage Drug Ads.

If you think drugs are scary now, take a look at what was on offer in the 1800’s and 1900’s…

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Source: Dr. Bonkers presents
The Nearly Genuine and Truly Marvelous
Psychoneuropharmacological Mental Medicine Show

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One Response to “Healthbolt Historic: Vintage Drug Ads.”
  1. Dan Abshear says:

    Those drugs pictured use to be sold over the counter, as one does today buying a bottle of ibuprophen. Trivia on Heroin: Made by Bayer, the same people who brought the world mustard gas. They named the drug due to its ‘heroic’ properties as a non-addictive solution to morophine addicts. Clearly that is not the case.

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