Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup

[clamnebula.livejournal.com]

According to the site that I found this image from,'Don't Marry the Dragon' (http://www.dontmarrythedragon.org/) -

"After the discovery of diacytelmorphine the Bayer company marketed it as heroin. Other companies started making cough syrups and other remedies. Heroin was legal in the U.S. prior to 1914. As shown to the left this teething medicine for children contained heroin."

Comments

[chicklet-girl.livejournal.com]

Nothing like getting a monkey on your back before your first birthday.

[albear.livejournal.com]

. . . "this teething medicine for children contained heroin."

That'll shut the little bastards up! ;)

[bzul.livejournal.com]

A popular sentimental child-rearing book of the period was "Pinkies, Binkies, Blankies & Junkies".

[auntie-lovie.livejournal.com]

I prefer laudanum ^_^

[blue-sky-lark.livejournal.com]

Ooh, you traditionalist, you^.^

[cactuswren.livejournal.com]

I've never seen -- and do not find at the "Don't Marry the Dragon" site or anywhere else -- any evidence that Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup contained heroin. Morphine, yes, but not heroin.

[clamnebula.livejournal.com]

I think you're right. There was another product called 'Dr. James Soothing Syrup' that did contain heroin, and maybe the Don't Marry the Dragon site author got those two mixed up.

Here's a website with a listing of some of those patent medicines and their respective dangerous drug contents - http://www.bottlebooks.com/dangerou.htm