Jenny Zehringer
ellebut what a night it must have been
Dogpile
David M Reiss MD
H4Heights πͺπΊπ΅πΈπΊπ¦π¨π¦Good point. To every season, there IS a purpose...
Phil Thane β
Soupy51@ElleGray
That's every night.
That's every night.
ClassyT
Whiskey Bottle@ElleGray I think I feel a (cough cough) tickle in my throat.
okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin@ElleGray
It was that chloroform that put me over.
It was that chloroform that put me over.
chillzilla
The Evil Microwizard
nakeee@ElleGray watch https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/poison-squad/ and read the book for more fun food stuffffff :$
RodneyPetersonTalentAgencyLate December 1963β¦ πΆ
Kit Rhett Aultman@ElleGray The thing that always confuses the tar out of me is the chloroform. Usually that's for inhalation.
Blippy the Wonder Slug (MOVED)@roadriverrail
π One would think so. I blame Hollywood.
It's not like in the movies: it takes a LONG time, and they struggle a LOT.
Anyway, oral consumption is/was also a thing, tho little mentioned in literature/movies.
Chloroform is still widely used today as a solvent, and as a reagent in the production of other materials.
@ElleGray
@BlippyTheWonderSlug @ElleGray I won't ask how you know how much "they struggle". π
Mx Autumn 
@roadriverrail @ElleGray I wonder if itβs for taste. It has a flavour, used to be used in sweets.
@roadriverrail @ElleGray Victory V sweets used to contain it and I believe a cannabis extract as flavourings. You can still get them today and they apparently taste the same according to elderly relatives who had the originals. Iβm guessing theyβre what this cough syrup would have tasted like.
@carbontwelve @ElleGray Wow! Yeah, it was definitely a flavoring agent. I learned a thing!
In this case, it seems chloroform wasn't highly uncommon in cough medicine and I notice the actual doses are small enough they could be reasonably therapeutic. Assuming "m" is "milligram", the cannabis is barely a threshold dose for a lightweight like me.
Scout Da Woof@ElleGray patent meds 
Rodney Simba πΏπΌ πΊπΈ :verified:
Andrew Briscoe@ElleGray That sounds amazingly fun.
Mercurius Goldstein@ElleGray
Mummy Iβm siiiiiick I need the medicinnnnne
Mummy Iβm siiiiiick I need the medicinnnnne
Brace of Hounds@ElleGray Thoughtful of them to make it low-alcohol! π
@ElleGray This looks like a cough syrup prescribed by a sleep demon for sure!
Like you might have the foggiest memory if you coughed...
Flaming Cheeto@ElleGray stops you from coughing by slowing your respiration waaaaayyyyy down
RacerX@ElleGray sounds like a trippy Netflix & Chill Friday night. Do they still sell this stuff???
AlexanderMars
Superdave!@ElleGray @andthisismrspeacock What a great cough med and sleep aid! Should be in every medicine cabinet! Some of the ingredients are illegal? Details! *sigh*
GulfofMexico@ElleGray I wonder what the other ingredients were?
Jeffy π³οΈββ§οΈπ³οΈβππΊπ¦ β€οΈπ±πΊ@ElleGray Mark could be lousy in bed and you wouldn't remember. ;)
@godofbiscuits who's Mark
@ElleGray βTrade. Trade Markβ. Roughtrade, I assume. π
eyrea π¨π¦@ElleGray I've been kept up nights with a rotten cough for over two weeks now. That stuff sounds perfect.
Steffen Christensen@ElleGray I think I need to compute doses on that bad boy. Makes a Tylenol-3 look like a light lunch, most likely.
Neil1808@ElleGray
I apologise for my cynicism but I decided to check that for myself. It just seemed to be perfectly crafted click bait.
Well, my post never claimed it was real, but medications like morphine and cannabis WERE sold in over-the-counter remedies for many years (so there would have been mixes like this available one way or another)
@ElleGray
It was the combination that looked too good. My own grandmother was given heroin for illness & stress. (She said she understood why people became addicted.)
It was the combination that looked too good. My own grandmother was given heroin for illness & stress. (She said she understood why people became addicted.)
Passenger
Patricia Cordeiro
sebastian bΓΌttrich
π πairchild π@ElleGray This plus a glass and you have an Edgar Allen Poe-themed drink I like to call the "Nevermore".
Jeff@ElleGray it didn't cure you, but nobody cared.
Laura Vanderperas 
@ElleGray and of it doesn't cure you, you don't care about the cough anymore, because you are too high to care, or dead xD
Karma Happens@ElleGray Lights out! π΄
Just Tired@ElleGray
Now I finally know why they called them the good old days. Never made sense before
Now I finally know why they called them the good old days. Never made sense before
Robert Lou Dobbs III@ElleGray It's called one night because you don't wake up. Dark apothecary humor.
stevenray@ElleGray damn! Donβt know about that chloroform, though.
cheewai
Flatbush Gardener π@ElleGray
"Skillfully Combined With a Number of Other Ingredients"
"Skillfully Combined With a Number of Other Ingredients"
New to all this@ElleGray they don't make it like they used to.
notsoloud@ElleGray
I like the "less than 1%" alcohol. Wouldn't want people to think we're getting drunk now would we π
I like the "less than 1%" alcohol. Wouldn't want people to think we're getting drunk now would we π
Cefiar@ElleGray And translated into metric (for those who have no idea what a fluid ounce, minim or grain is):
Each 28.4130625 mL contains:
Alcohol (less than 1%): 0.251573990885 mL
Cannabis Indica, F.E.: 0.266372460937 mL
Chloroform: 0.130226536458 mL
Morphia, Sulph: 8.09986375 mg
So they were telling the truth, in that the Alcohol is only 0.8854% of that cough syrup. Now, the Morphia on the other hand... π
Miles Sabin@ElleGray OH: "... why does it look like a tombstone? ..."
Skro
MemphisDaPlaya π²π²Definitely help an insomniac.
YetAnotherGeekGuy 
@ElleGray
Pretty sure this is the reason for the phrase, βWake up dead.β
Pretty sure this is the reason for the phrase, βWake up dead.β
@ElleGray As found in Michael Goveβs ministerial red box π€