In today's episode of "Your Victorian Pharmacist is Trying to Kill You"👇
Heroin was first synthesized in 1874. Bayer commercialized the drug & began mass producing it in 1898. The drug was promoted as a cough suppressant as well as a better and safer substitute for morphine and codeine. #histmed
Heroin was first synthesized in 1874. Bayer commercialized the drug & began mass producing it in 1898. The drug was promoted as a cough suppressant as well as a better and safer substitute for morphine and codeine. #histmed
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"It's going to take a generation to die off before the crisis comes to an end".
It's the death of seniors, people with painful diseases, and the disabled that he says will end opiate addiction.
We need Luigi and real doctors.
Random fact: Her longsuffering nephew is kept from fighting in World War I by his "milk leg", now known as thrombophlebitis. I was very confused as a teen.
Jimson weed.
How common were fatal overdoses from smoked or orally consumed opium? Haven’t been able to find info on this. I suspect fatal opiate ODs were very rare before the isolation of morphine & invention of the hypodermic needle.