Bottle of Bayer's heroin - Between 1890 and 1910 heroin was sold as a non-addictive substitute for morphine. It was also used to treat children with a strong cough
Metcalf's Coca Wine was one of a huge variety of wines with cocaine on the market. Everybody used to say that it would make you happy and it would also work as a medicinal treatment
Mariani wine was the most famous Coca wine around 1875. Pope Leo XIII used to carry one bottle with him all the time. He awarded Angelo Mariani (the producer) with a Vatican gold medal
A paper weight promoting C.F. Boehringer & Soehne (Mannheim, Germany). They were proud of being the biggest producers in the world of products containing Quinine and Cocaine
Opium for Asthma - Considered safe since it contained no more than 40% alcohol opium
Cocaine Tablets - All stage actors, singers, teachers and preachers had to have them in the 1900's for a maximum performance. Great to 'smooth' the voice
Cocaine Toothache Drops - This would make them sleep well - Opium with 46% alcohol
Opium for Newborns - Very popular for children in 1885. Not only did they relieve the pain, they made the children happy
No wonder they were called 'The Good Old Days'!
QuotaBillsPain and suffering are God's megaphone. - C S Lewis
Leaders don't inflict pain; they share pain. - Max Depree
A little chocolate a day keeps the doctor at bay. - Marcia Carrington
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. - Hippocrates
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. - Erma Bombeck
Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance. - Plato
Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses? - Edmund H North
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. - Arthur Schopenhauer
He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not. - Italian Proverb
Save one life, you're a hero. Save 100 lives, you're a nurse. - Unknown
Confucius say: "Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient." - Unknown
The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal. - C S Lewis
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine. - Henry Ward Beecher
The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention. - Thomas R Insel
Cocaine is God’s way of telling you you’re making too much money. - Robin Williams
Faith and knowledge lean largely upon each other in the practice of medicine. - Peter Mere Latham
Oh, when I was a kid, I was ugly. When I was born, the doctor smacked my mother. - Rodney Dangerfield
My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee. - Phyllis Diller
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire
I recently became a Christian Scientist. It was the only health plan I could afford. - Betsy Salkind
It is my custom to call this book 'An Anatomy of All the Parts of the Soul.' - John Calvin
First the Doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me. - Steve Martin
If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives. - David Riesman
People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt. - Seneca
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. - Orson Welles
A man has reached middle age when he is warned to slow down by his doctor instead of the police. - Unknown
When I was born the Doctor took one look at my face, turned me over and said, "Look, twins!" - Rodney Dangerfield
Pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting... it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity. - Marcus Aurelius
God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life. - Josh McDowell
The more pain that's referenced or implied, the deeper the laugh can be because the laughter heals the pain. - Mimi Kennedy
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. - George Bernard Shaw
My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies. - WC Fields
Health is your greatest wealth, so experiencing a marathon and seeing what you're capable of is really special. - Christy Turlington
I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is a flower. God put it here. - Willie Nelson
Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say; sanctity is the state about which theology has nothing to say. - W H Auden
Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee. - George Bernard Shaw
Once in your life you need a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman, and a preacher... but every day, three times a day, you need a farmer. - Brenda Schaepp
I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away. - George Carlin
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not. - Mark Twain
I worked in a health food store once. A guy came in and asked me, "If I melt dry ice, can I take a bath without getting wet?" - Steven Wright