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Cocaine tooth drops, morphine teething syrup and other Victorian quack cures

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These adverts for quack cures - often depicting children - claimed the products would heal a long list of illnesses including cancer, liver disease and coughs. But the miracle cures were often loaded with substances such as cocaine, morphine and alcohol.



Interesting to say the least.
 
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Well I knew cocaine used to be a medicine... They came up with some weird stuff to say the least.

Smooth said:
Heroin? For coughs??!?!
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Who knows, it might just work... with a lot of side effects of course.
 
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