Heroin Cough Syrup For Kids
In the 1890s, the German pharmaceutical firm Bayer marketed heroin as a cough, cold, and pain reliever. According to an anti-Bayer monitoring organization, the firm urged parents to give their children heroin to cure coughs, colds, and “irritation” as late as 1912. One Spanish commercial for “Heroina” to treat bronchitis in children depicts two unattended toddlers reaching across a kitchen table for a bottle of the opiate, while another depicts a mother spoon-feeding it to her ill child. The commercial claims that “la tos desaparece” (“the cough vanishes”).
Heroin Cough Syrup For Kids
Malaria To Treat Syphilis
Julius Wagner-Jauregg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1927 for his “discovery of the therapeutic efficacy of malaria inoculation in the treatment of dementia paralytica.” In other words, he discovered that malaria-induced fevers might aid in the treatment of syphilis. The (apparent) issue was that a significant proportion of patients died from malaria, which is fatal.
Malaria To Treat Syphilis
