Bottle of Bayer's heroin - Between 1890 and 1910 heroin was sold as a non-addictive substitute for morphine. It was also used to treat children with a strong cough
Metcalf's Coca Wine was one of a huge variety of wines with cocaine on the market. Everybody used to say that it would make you happy and it would also work as a medicinal treatment
Mariani wine was the most famous Coca wine around 1875. Pope Leo XIII used to carry one bottle with him all the time. He awarded Angelo Mariani (the producer) with a Vatican gold medal
A paper weight promoting C.F. Boehringer & Soehne (Mannheim, Germany). They were proud of being the biggest producers in the world of products containing Quinine and Cocaine
Opium for Asthma - Considered safe since it contained no more than 40% alcohol opium
Cocaine Tablets - All stage actors, singers, teachers and preachers had to have them in the 1900's for a maximum performance. Great to 'smooth' the voice
Cocaine Toothache Drops - This would make them sleep well - Opium with 46% alcohol
Opium for Newborns - Very popular for children in 1885. Not only did they relieve the pain, they made the children happy
No wonder they were called 'The Good Old Days'!
QuotaBillsThe first wealth is health. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
A young doctor makes a humpy graveyard. - English Proverb
Happiness is good health and a bad memory. - Ingrid Bergman
Nurses are the hospitality of the hospital. - Carrie Latet
Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse. - Elizabeth Kenny
The doctor is to be feared more than the disease. - French Proverb
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. - Hippocrates
Three out of four doctors recommend another doctor. - Graffito
Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance. - Plato
Champions expect pain, endure pain, and never complain. - Unknown
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. - Groucho Marx
No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. - Chinese Proverb
He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not. - Italian Proverb
A nurse will always give us hope, an angel with a stethoscope. - Terri Guillemets
My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August. - Ronnie Shakes
The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal. - C S Lewis
The great art of life is sensation; to feel that we exist, even in pain. - Lord Byron
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. - Dr. Seuss
The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention. - Thomas R Insel
Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger. - Allen Klein
Financial ruin from medical bills is almost exclusively an American disease. - Roul Turley
This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries. - Sir Walter Raleigh
My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee. - Phyllis Diller
A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs. - Joan Welsh
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire
I recently became a Christian Scientist. It was the only health plan I could afford. - Betsy Salkind
No, Doctor, I don't want to grow young again. I just want to keep on growing old. - Madame de Rothschild
I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places. - Henny Youngman
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. - Erma Bombeck
I wonder why you can always read a Doctor's bill but you can never read his prescription. - Finley Peter Dunne
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. - Pearl S. Buck
A man has reached middle age when he is warned to slow down by his doctor instead of the police. - Unknown
Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing. - Max Irons
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood, I'd just type a little faster. - Isaac Asimov
Inherited wealth is a big handicap to happiness. It is as certain death to ambition as cocaine is to morality. - William K Vanderbilt
'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing. - Thomas Szasz
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not. - Mark Twain
Every essential oil has a healing purpose. I think it's a great gift because it's something that elevates your mood and your health. - Yolanda Hadid
Where we always start is: What's the user's itch? What's their pain point that occurs frequently enough to build a habit around? - Nir Eyal
There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine. - Gerald F Lieberman