28/01/08
This post was published on 28/01/08 in Gallery, War on drugs.
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Tags: Big Pharma, heroin.
This post was published on 28/01/08 in Gallery, War on drugs.
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Tags: Big Pharma, heroin.
Comment by Lee Rudolph, 04/02/08, 03:08:
Ah, those were the days. I am happy to own a copy of T.M. Griffiths’s compendium “Non-Secret Recipes”. It’s full of recipes for the corner drugstore (and the farmer); mine is the 1910 edition, featuring as an appendix the text of the then just-passed Pure Food and Drug Law.
The book is playing hard to find just at the moment, so I can’t check whether it has any recipes incorporating anything so new-fangled as Heroin. But here are some of my previously transcribed favorites.
===begin extensive quotations from T.M. Griffiths===
Suppositories for Piles
Ext. ergot. (solid) …… 2 grains
Ext. Opii ……………. 1/4 grains
Ext. nuc. vom…………. 1/4 grains
Cocain. hydroclor……… 1/4 grains
Ol. theobrom………….. q.s.
Ft. suppositoria.
Mitte 12.
(Rub down the extracts and cocaine on a warm slab, and gradually add the ol. theobrom., which should only be just melted, return to the suppository-bath, pouring into the mould as soon as liquefied, using the least possible heat.)
For Painful Piles and Vaginitis
(Journ. Med. and Science.)
Ext. aconite ………….. 1/8 grain
Ext. belladonna ……….. 1/8 grain
Ext. hydrastis …………. 1 grain
Ext. lobelia …………… 3 grains
Cacao butter …………… enough
Make one suppository.
Pile Suppositories
Iodoform ……………… 30 grains
Extract belladonna……… 3 grains
Morphine sulphate……..1 1/2 grains
Cacao butter………….. 180 grains
Mix, and make twelve suppositories.
Pile suppositories.
Ext. witch hazel, powd….. 60 grains
Tannin ……………….. 12 grains
Opium ………………… 4 grains
Cacao butter …………. 180 grains
Mix, and make twelve suppositories.
===end===
The first one in particular seems like it might almost make piles pleasant–if it didn’t kill you.
He also has a recipe for “asthma cigarettes” compounded of tobacco and Jimson weed.
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