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The Good Old Days
Instantaneous invigorators and cures of the 1900's
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'!
A young doctor makes a humpy graveyard. - English Proverb
The pain passes, but the beauty remains. - Pierre-August Renoir
No medicine cures what happiness cannot. - Gabriel G Marquez
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. - Lord Byron
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. - Max Eastman
A man without a woman is like a neck without a pain. - WC Fields
Health insurance should be a given for every citizen. - Jesse Ventura
After two days in hospital I took a turn for the nurse. - WC Fields
Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses? - Edmund H North
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it. - Ovid
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends. - Tom Waits
Fond of lawsuits, little wealth; fond of doctors, little health. - Hebrew Proverb
There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health. - Henri Amiel
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir. - Thomas Fuller
Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies. - P.J. O'Rourke
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
Cocaine is God’s way of telling you you’re making too much money. - Robin Williams
A woman doctor is only good for women's problems - like your groinocology - Archie Bunker
If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives. - David Riesman
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. - Erma Bombeck
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. - Joseph Addison
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright
The practice of medicine occurs even in primitive society, but law accompanies civilization. - Saying
We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves. - Prince Philip
A man has reached middle age when he is warned to slow down by his doctor instead of the police. - Unknown
A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness. - Elaine MacDonald
God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life. - Josh McDowell
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
In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. - Martin H. Fischer
The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot. - Jay Leno
Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. - Ben Hecht
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest. - William Osler
Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body. - Leonardo da Vinci
The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth. - Unknown
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? - Leslie Caron
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 two ways you can get through pain. You can let it destroy you, or you can use it as fuel to drive you: to dream bigger, to work harder. - Taylor Swift
In other industries, value is defined by the ultimate stakeholder - the one who benefits, or not, from the service. We should do the same in medicine. - Dave deBronkart
The pain passes, but the beauty remains. - Pierre-August Renoir
No medicine cures what happiness cannot. - Gabriel G Marquez
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. - Lord Byron
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. - Max Eastman
A man without a woman is like a neck without a pain. - WC Fields
Health insurance should be a given for every citizen. - Jesse Ventura
After two days in hospital I took a turn for the nurse. - WC Fields
Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses? - Edmund H North
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it. - Ovid
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends. - Tom Waits
Fond of lawsuits, little wealth; fond of doctors, little health. - Hebrew Proverb
There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health. - Henri Amiel
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir. - Thomas Fuller
Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies. - P.J. O'Rourke
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
Cocaine is God’s way of telling you you’re making too much money. - Robin Williams
A woman doctor is only good for women's problems - like your groinocology - Archie Bunker
If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives. - David Riesman
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. - Erma Bombeck
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. - Joseph Addison
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright
The practice of medicine occurs even in primitive society, but law accompanies civilization. - Saying
We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves. - Prince Philip
A man has reached middle age when he is warned to slow down by his doctor instead of the police. - Unknown
A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness. - Elaine MacDonald
God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life. - Josh McDowell
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
In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. - Martin H. Fischer
The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot. - Jay Leno
Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. - Ben Hecht
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest. - William Osler
Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body. - Leonardo da Vinci
The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth. - Unknown
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? - Leslie Caron
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 two ways you can get through pain. You can let it destroy you, or you can use it as fuel to drive you: to dream bigger, to work harder. - Taylor Swift
In other industries, value is defined by the ultimate stakeholder - the one who benefits, or not, from the service. We should do the same in medicine. - Dave deBronkart
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