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Vintage Health Ads That Actually Give Horrible Advice
Use Laudanum for Everything! is listed (or ranked) 7 on the list Vintage Health Ads That Actually Give Horrible Advice
Use Carter's Little Nerve Pills, a cure for nervousness and dyspepsia (front)
Use Carter's Little Nerve Pills, a cure for nervousness and dyspepsia (front) | by Boston Public Library
Week 31—“[T]his dirty business of laudanum” (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, letter to John Morgan, MAY 14 1814)
TU20.4 ‘Upon Mr Jones' enquiries, Lady Catherine explained indignantly that Anne was seen regularly by the best physician to be had in Kent. But when Mrs Jenkinson handed over the reticule containing Anne's medicines, these were found to be laudanum, sal volatile and Hungary water.’
25 Health Products You'll Be Glad You Don't See Today
This infant preservative from 1872. Contained, um, opium. | 25 Health Products You'll Be Glad You Don't See Today
How to prolong the thread of life