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Old Time Over-the-Counter Medicines - Yazata - Aug 18, 2023

They didn't call them the good-old-days for nothing

Some of the patent medicines worked too --

This one from 1888

If a combination of alcohol, cannabis, chloroform and morphine won't soothe your cough, nothing will


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Original 1894 bottle of Coca Cola

Guaranteed to make you feel refreshed, given that it contained 3.5 grams of cocaine


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RE: Old Time Over-the-Counter Medicines - Magical Realist - Aug 18, 2023

Alot of people with tooth aches back then! lol


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