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(41,741 posts)EYESORE 9001
(25,808 posts)I need a swig othat!
hlthe2b
(101,699 posts)in more ways than one.
captain queeg
(10,035 posts)Though it reminds me of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas that I read years ago. The author mentioned scoring a bottle of ether which he was looking forward to taking. I think he was serious.
EYESORE 9001
(25,808 posts)To him, it represented hitting rock bottom.
captain queeg
(10,035 posts)Of course he had plenty of other stuff to try.
Dale in Laurel MD
(694 posts)Roughly 1/480 of a fluid ounce.
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NBachers
(16,998 posts)marble falls
(56,353 posts)Chainfire
(17,304 posts)Irish_Dem
(45,616 posts)getagrip_already
(14,225 posts)Morphine will suppress respiration and that combination might suppress coughing.
But as you say, you would be in another land if you took a dose of that. It would certainly kill a soar throat.
Chainfire
(17,304 posts)doc03
(35,143 posts)Coca Cola have cocaine at that time?
captain queeg
(10,035 posts)And amphetamines available at the pharmacy, dont think you needed a prescription. Millions of doses handed out to the Wehrmacht. For that matter the USAAF also issued the stuff for long range flights like the B-29s.
Ocelot II
(115,267 posts)Nyquil, which usually knocks me flat, seems pretty tame in comparison to that stuff.
hunter
(38,263 posts)It's a carcinogen and a toxin.
I hate to imagine what those "other ingredients" were. In 1888 things like coal tar were considered medicine.
Various coal tar derivatives do have analgesic properties -- that's where acetaminophen came from -- but overall coal tar is not something you want to take internally and something that should be used very cautiously externally, where it demonstrates antifungal, anti-inflammatory, anti-itch, and antiparasitic properties..
Codeine may preferable to morphine as cough suppressant. It's a natural component of raw opium but now it's usually synthesized from morphine.
Somebody swilling this stuff for the morphine might suffer similar damage to their body as somebody eating handfuls of Vicodin, and it's not because of the opiate.
walkingman
(7,505 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,855 posts)Says right on the label that the ingredients were "skillfully" combined.
Like the internet, they couldn't say that if it weren't true
Bucky
(53,795 posts)myccrider
(484 posts)born in 1912, told me that they used to drop an aspirin into a Coca Cola bottle, drink it and get high. I believe there was cocaine in Coke originally.
Up until the mid 70s I could get an OTC medicine from some pharmacies in Texas that contained a small amount of opium. (I lived in California but was born in Texas and most of my relatives were and are still there, so someone would buy it and send it to me through the mail.) My son had bronchitis that really flared up when he was emotionally upset. My own doctor recommended that or a swig of beer to chill him out!!!!!