by StCredZero » Wed Sep 26, 2018 5:00 pm
It wasn't just alcohol which could cure everything. Cocaine and caffeine also got into medicines back then. People even fed the sick spoonfuls of crude oil, which is actually pretty toxic. (I heard about this during the tour of Drake's Well, then years later saw this being portrayed in the movie "The Ballad of Little Joe.")
Now go and look at the ingredients in a lot of medicines at your local drugstore today. Lots of over the counter medicines have caffeine in them. The only reason it's there, is because it makes you feel different. Lots of "medicine" throughout human history was just placebos enhanced by side effects making you feel different.
It wasn't just alcohol which could cure everything. Cocaine and caffeine also got into medicines back then. People even fed the sick spoonfuls of crude oil, which is actually pretty toxic. (I heard about this during the tour of Drake's Well, then years later saw this being portrayed in the movie "The Ballad of Little Joe.")
Now go and look at the ingredients in a lot of medicines at your local drugstore today. Lots of over the counter medicines have caffeine in them. The only reason it's there, is because it makes you feel different. Lots of "medicine" throughout human history was just placebos enhanced by side effects making you feel different.