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Mrs. Winslow’s
Soothing Syrup was a concoction of sugar syrup and morphine sulfate. This is
an ad for one of the favorite wines of its time, Vin Mariani, which
contained cocaine. Coca Cola, when it was first marketed, contained a small
amount of cocaine. Cocaine even found it’s way into some seemingly absurd
products, such as Burnett’s cocaine hair dressing. Of course we cannot
forget the cocaine toothache drops for children. Thus there was a very real
health danger presented by the wide variety of patent medicine throughout
the 19th century.
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