STORY TIMERexpiratory Drugs

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup

• 1849 - Mrs. Charlotte N. Winslow• Prepared a soothing syrup to help

the stressed 19th-century mothers in baby care

• Consisted of Morphine sulphate (65 mg/ounce), sodium carbonate, spirits foeniculi, and aqua ammonia

• Kids were not only at their brattiest but also often died

1872 – Best Medicine of the World

• “Infants Preservative”• Given to Queen Victoria• Very popular medicine• Instant relief of

– Whooping cough, Convulsions, – Flatulence, Bowel affections, – Teething, Thrush – Cow pox, Measles, etc.

Contained opium

Narcotic Cough Syrup

• Finally in 1910 the New York Times banned the whole narcotic-babysitter concept

Cough Syrups

Kimball White Pine and Tar Cough SyrupUntil 1976, Chloroform was used in cough syrup, toothpastes & ointments

Cough remedies contained codeine, Chloroform, Cannabis and Morophia

Cough Remedy

Smith Glyco-HeroinA mixture of Heroin and glycerin.

Heroin was originally developed by Bayer as Cough Elixir, balsams & losenges.

Calm Your Cough with Hashish

Asthma Cigarettes

• Dr. Batty’s Asthma Cigarettes Claimed to provide temporary relief of everything from asthma to colds and bad breath.

• “Not recommended for children < 6.”

Cigarette for Throat

Kilacold chlorine bomb

• Doctors noticed that flu was less common among workers in the chlorine gas plant

• The Kilacold chlorine bomb was a teardrop-shaped glass ampoule containing 0.35g of chlorine gas.

• Claimed to cure the cold of the President of the United States. 

Carbolic Smoke Ball Company 1892

• It claimed to be a cure for influenza and other diseases

• The smoke ball was a rubber ball with a tube attached. It was filled with carbolic acid 

• The nose would run, flushing out viral infections.

1886 - Godfrey’s Inhaler

Flu Remedies

1890 - Vicks VapoRub

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Oral Hygine

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