Psychoactive Drugs

Laudanum

July 30th, 2006 at 12:36pm Under Psychoactive Drugs

1880s

Laudanum Poison! Dose Three months old, 2 drops; one year old, 4 drops; four years old, 6 drops; ten years old, 14 drops; twenty years old, twenty drops. Steelman and Archer, Wholesale Druggists, No. 117 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

‘A room like a dream, a really spiritual room, where the stagnant atmosphere is lightly tinted rose and blue.

‘Here the soul bathes in indolence, scented with desire and regret.-It seems like a twilight, the pale blue and rose, a voluptuous dream in an eclipse.

‘The shapes of the furnishings are long, prostrate, languid. The furnishings are dreamlike; they seem endowed with somnambulist life, like vegetal and mineral existence. The fabrics speak a muted language, like flowers, like skies, like sunsets.

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Absinthe

July 24th, 2006 at 12:23pm Under Psychoactive Drugs

1990s

Destilacion Especial Absenta Calidad Superior

Absinthe is a potent, emerald-green liquor flavored with several herbs, the most significant of which is wormwood. Wormwood contains a chemical called thujone, which structurally resembles THC, the active ingrediant in cannabis. Because of its reputed deletarious effects, absinthe was made illegal in most Western countries around the First World War (although it remains legal in Spain and the Czech Republic). Before this, however, it was a popular drink, especially among artists such as Ernest Hemingway, who praised it for its ‘opaque, bitter, tongue-numbing, brain-warming, stomach-warming, idea-changing liquid alchemy.’

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Lead and Opium Wash

July 16th, 2006 at 12:31pm Under Psychoactive Drugs

Early 20th c.

100 Compressed Tablets No. 524 Lead and Opium Wash Opium Extract ‘ Gr. Lead Acetate 5 Grs. To prepare ‘Lead and Opium Wash’ dissolve one tablet in a fluid ounce of warm water. The amount of warm water may be increased if desired. A slight residue will always be noticable, which is due to the use of insoluble diluents in making these tablets. Poison Parke Davis & Co. Detroit, Mich

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Kola

July 7th, 2006 at 12:16pm Under Psychoactive Drugs

1900s

4 Fld. Ozs. No. 129 Fluid Extract Kola N.F. 5th Edition The Dried Cotyledons of Cola Nitid(’) Standard: 0.85 to 1.(’) Gm. Of Caffeine per 100 cc. Average Dose- 1 fluiddrachm (4 cc.) To prepare syrup, non-official Rx Fluid Extract’4 fld ozs. (120 cc.) Syrup’12 fld ozs. (360 cc.) Mix. John Wyeth & Brother Incorporated Philadelphia

Kola nut is a potent natural source of caffeine. John Pemberton, an Atlanta chemist, began selling ‘French Wine Cola,’ a cocaine wine, in 1885. Perhaps due to prohibitionist pressures, he substituted kola extract for the wine and changed the name to ‘Coca-Cola’ an intellectual beverage and temperance drink.’ It contained the ‘valuable tonic and nerve stimulant properties of the coca plant and cola (or kola) nuts.’

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Coca Mariani

July 1st, 2006 at 12:12pm Under Psychoactive Drugs

Coca Mariani, Paris (1890s)

Angelo Mariani, an Italian businessman, became interested in the stimulating properties of the coca leaf in the 1860s. He soon became the world?s largest importer of coca, as well as one of its foremost scholars. His most popular product was a Bordeaux wine called Vin Mariani or Coca Mariani, which contained 0.1 grains of cocaine per ounce. By the 1890s, the demand for Coca Mariani had made him a millionaire, and he was able to publish a book of enthusiastic testimonials from hundreds of artists and political figures including Jules Verne, Henrik Ibsen, William McKinley, Thomas Edison, and Pope Leo XIII. His wildly successful product inspired scores of imitators, including John Pemberton, the inventor of Coca-Cola.

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Glyco-Heroin

June 30th, 2006 at 12:40pm Under Psychoactive Drugs

1910s

Bottle: Glykeron Glyco-Heroin (Smith) Heroin content ‘ grain to fluid ounce Alcohol 3 ‘ per cent. Glyco-Heroin (Smith) embraces the most active antispasmodic, balsamic and expectorant agents. It possesses analgesic, dyspnea-dispelling, inflammation allating and mucus-liquefying properties in a remarkably high degree. The anodyne and antispasmodic influence of the preparation on the respiratory system renders it especially useful where cough is attended with pain, difficult breathing or laborious expectoration. Dose- The adult dose in one teaspoonful every two hours, or at longer intervals, as the individual case requires. For children of ten years or more, the dose is from one-quarter to one-half teaspoonful: for children of three years or more, five to ten drops. This product is designed expressly for the use of physicians. Martin H. Smith Co. Phamaceutical Chemists, New York.

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Firwein

June 24th, 2006 at 12:21pm Under Psychoactive Drugs

1900s

16 Oz Firwein Trade Mark Alcohol 15% The Tilden Company Pharmicists and Chemists New Lebanon, N.Y and St. Louis, Mo. Established 1848 Incorporated 1893 Firwein Alcohol 15 Per Cent Expectorant ‘ Sedative ‘ Anti Spasmodic. A palatable preparation of abies balsamea pleasantly and effectively blended with the salts of Iodine and Bromine, held in solution with 15 per cent Alcohol. It may be given when Cod Liver Oil is indicated, and associated with it, thus forming a convenient and agreeable vehicle for the administration of the latter and it will be found to promote the efficiency of the oil. Dose ‘ One to two teaspoonfuls before meals, or oftener, though regulated by age or condition.

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Paregoric

June 17th, 2006 at 12:22pm Under Psychoactive Drugs

1890s

Paregoric Dose Three days old, 2 drops One week old, 4 drops One month old, 6 drops One year old, 10 drops Five years old, 20 drops Adults, a teaspoonful. Prepared by A.H. Williams Co. Utica, N.Y.

Popularity: 8%

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Quaalude

June 10th, 2006 at 12:23pm Under Psychoactive Drugs

1979

100 Tablets Lemmon Quaalude-300 (Methaqualone) Each tablet contains: Methqualone 300 mg. (2-methyl-3-0-tolyl-4(3H)-quinazolinone) Caution: Federal law prohibits dispensing without prescription Lemmon Company Sellerville, Pa. Usual adult dose: For sleep. One-half or one tablet at bedtime.

Popularity: 7%

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Cocaine Hydrochlorate

June 1st, 2006 at 12:28pm Under Psychoactive Drugs

1890s

Solution Cocaine Hydrochlorate (Cocaine muriate) (Pure) 4 Per Cent Robinson, Apothecary, Masonic Temple, Memphis, Tenn.

Sherlock Holmes took the bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morroco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle and rolled back his left shirtcuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist, all dotted and scarred with innumerable punture-marks. Finally he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined armchair with a long sigh of satisfaction.

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