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[superchemicalgirl]

hard to cough when you have respiratory depression and stop breathing

 

[Alaskan]

hard to cough when you have respiratory depression and stop breathing

yep....

death also stops coughing.

 

[ronott1]

hard to cough when you have respiratory depression and stop breathing

I know!

One of the ways opiates kill

 

[microchick]

I read somewhere where opium (or was it heroin) opium I think used to be used in medicine to 'quiet fussy babies'. Okay...sure stone them out of their minds and they are going to be happy, quiet babies for sure. It was a common additive for all sorts of 'nerve' tonics and the like. Its use was just as common back then as Tylenol is today.

I'm also thinking of Laudanum which if you google it is described as being Victorian times favorite drug. Everybody who was anybody used it.

But the Bayer history is a new one.

Really enjoyed the drug trivia, @superchemicalgirl. Maybe w could persuade you to do one for us also or at least pass on the one you do at work for us to enjoy. Can't speak for everyone but I for one would enjoy it.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Opium, morphine, heroin, hydromorphone, hydrocodone, codeine... all very closely related.

Mrs Windsor's was mostly morphine

Laudanum is basically alcohol and morphine. It's still available today, called Tincture of Opium.

Not sure what I'm going to do this week - probably something on the different salts of erythromycin if I can get in enough reading to be able to give a legible answer on the why of having so many different ones.
I also have a bunch of drawers of old prescriptions from Annapolis that I'm thinking about finding a good one, taking a photo and having everyone translate. MAYBE I CAN FIND ONE FOR LAUDANUM... Hmm... off to the spare room

 

[pennyJo1960]

O find how many nasty things that can upset anyone's apple cart where talked of miracle drugs back then

 

[bruceha2000]

heroin... sedative for coughs huh

Probably forgot all about the cough.

 

[Peep_Show]

Don't forget the coca in old-time Coca-cola was cocaine! (Or so I am told....)

 

[Latestarter]

My mom used to get terpenhydrate and codeine cough syrup when I was a kid. She swore by it. We hated it when she'd try to give it to us but I have to say, it did kill the cough and sleep came easy. Haven't seen it now in has to be 30 years. She was some kinda pissed when they made it a prescription only drug and she needed the doc to give her permission to get it.

https://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/how-to-store-fresh-eggs-zmaz77ndzgoe#axzz2wLLhdBnZ

 

[Alaskan]

My mom used to get terpenhydrate and codeine cough syrup when I was a kid. She swore by it. We hated it when she'd try to give it to us but I have to say, it did kill the cough and sleep came easy. Haven't seen it now in has to be 30 years. She was some kinda pissed when they made it a prescription only drug and she needed the doc to give her permission to get it.

https://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/how-to-store-fresh-eggs-zmaz77ndzgoe#axzz2wLLhdBnZ

cool article