In a very lighthearted look at our society’s past openness to self-medication and narcotic “health aids”, the article, “Weed, Booze, Cocaine and Other Old School “Medicine” Ads” posted at Pharmacy Technician Schools, has a litany of old-fashioned advertisements for things we’d not consider appropriate (or legal) today:
Granted, hindsight is 20/20, but some awfully strange substances have been used for pharmaceutical purposes in the past — and some might argue, continue to be used today. Here are some vintage advertisements touting items that we might balk at taking today.
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