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The Good Old Days
Instantaneous invigorators and cures of the 1900's
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'!
Happiness is health and a short memory. - Unknown
The best doctor gives the least medicines. - Benjamin Franklin
Happiness is good health and a bad memory. - Ingrid Bergman
Health insurance should be a given for every citizen. - Jesse Ventura
A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. - German Proverb
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. - Arthur Schopenhauer
If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles. - Joseph B Wirthlin
If you ignore your health for long enough, it'll go away. - Unknown
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. - William Osler
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends. - Tom Waits
Being in a good frame of mind helps one keep in the picture of health. - Unknown
The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention. - Thomas R Insel
Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger. - Allen Klein
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men. - Cicero
A hospital should also have a recovery room adjoining the cashier's office. - Francis O'Walsh
Health care's not about insurance! Health care's about getting treatment. - P.J. O'Rourke
My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live. - Kanye West
You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live. - Alexander Pope
Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents. - Peter Mere Latham
Grave: A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
No, Doctor, I don't want to grow young again. I just want to keep on growing old. - Madame de Rothschild
Our marriage vows: till death do us part, for better for worse, in secrets and in health. - Archie Bunker
I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places. - Henny Youngman
Having insurance doesn't guarantee good health outcomes, but it is a critical factor. - Irwin Redlener
When you can tell the story and it doesn't bring up any pain, you known it is healed. - Lyanla Vanzant
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. - Erma Bombeck
Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one. - William Menninger
A man has reached middle age when he is warned to slow down by his doctor instead of the police. - Unknown
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. - C S Lewis
Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor. - Abe Lemons
Just like a shoe, if someone is meant for you, they will fit just perfectly. No forcing, no struggling, and no pain. - Unknown
Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship. - Patrick Henry
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
A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession. - Martin H. Fischer
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? - Leslie Caron
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 went to the doctor because I'd swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills. My doctor told me to have a few drinks and get some rest. - Rodney Dangerfield
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry; lost knowledge by study; lost health by temperance or medicine; but lost time is gone forever. - Samuel Smiles
There are two ways you can get through pain. You can let it destroy you, or you can use it as fuel to drive you: to dream bigger, to work harder. - Taylor Swift
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine... Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants. - William Osler
The best doctor gives the least medicines. - Benjamin Franklin
Happiness is good health and a bad memory. - Ingrid Bergman
Health insurance should be a given for every citizen. - Jesse Ventura
A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. - German Proverb
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. - Arthur Schopenhauer
If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles. - Joseph B Wirthlin
If you ignore your health for long enough, it'll go away. - Unknown
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. - William Osler
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends. - Tom Waits
Being in a good frame of mind helps one keep in the picture of health. - Unknown
The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention. - Thomas R Insel
Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger. - Allen Klein
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men. - Cicero
A hospital should also have a recovery room adjoining the cashier's office. - Francis O'Walsh
Health care's not about insurance! Health care's about getting treatment. - P.J. O'Rourke
My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live. - Kanye West
You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live. - Alexander Pope
Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents. - Peter Mere Latham
Grave: A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
No, Doctor, I don't want to grow young again. I just want to keep on growing old. - Madame de Rothschild
Our marriage vows: till death do us part, for better for worse, in secrets and in health. - Archie Bunker
I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places. - Henny Youngman
Having insurance doesn't guarantee good health outcomes, but it is a critical factor. - Irwin Redlener
When you can tell the story and it doesn't bring up any pain, you known it is healed. - Lyanla Vanzant
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. - Erma Bombeck
Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one. - William Menninger
A man has reached middle age when he is warned to slow down by his doctor instead of the police. - Unknown
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. - C S Lewis
Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor. - Abe Lemons
Just like a shoe, if someone is meant for you, they will fit just perfectly. No forcing, no struggling, and no pain. - Unknown
Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship. - Patrick Henry
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
A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession. - Martin H. Fischer
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? - Leslie Caron
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 went to the doctor because I'd swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills. My doctor told me to have a few drinks and get some rest. - Rodney Dangerfield
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry; lost knowledge by study; lost health by temperance or medicine; but lost time is gone forever. - Samuel Smiles
There are two ways you can get through pain. You can let it destroy you, or you can use it as fuel to drive you: to dream bigger, to work harder. - Taylor Swift
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine... Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants. - William Osler
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