Calm Your Cough with
Heroin
In the
late 19th century people apparently took cough suppression seriously. We're
talking "I'm-going-to-take-me- some-heroin-to-calm-this-cough" level
serious, here. We know Victorians were sticklers for social etiquette and
wheezing your head off was probably considered frightfully rude, but we can't
imagine tying off and shooting some horse in the middle of a dinner party would
go over terribly well, either.
Well you probably don't
need us to tell you how addictive and destructive a drug heroin really is, but
just in case ... Heroin? Might want to avoid that stuff. On the upside, it
actually does suppress coughs, so if you do decide to become a junkie at least
you'll save on buying Halls.
Heroin, by the way, was originally developed by Bayer. You know, those friendly folks behind harmless old
aspirin.
Oh, and while we're taking
on the man, we should also mention that Bayer used to be called IG Farben, a
pharmaceutical and chemical conglomerate that allegedly sponsored experiments
by Nazi torturers. How is this not at the center of every single Tylenol ad
campaign: the fast acting pain reliever that has never sponsored Nazi torture
camps.
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