Man shares 70s cocaine medicine found in flooded pharmacy basement

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The medicine bottle lists cocaine, morphine and alcohol as ingredients, and was surprisingly frequently used in the 20th century.

According to research, the medicine can be traced back to Herbert Snow, a surgeon at the Cancer Hospital in Brompton, London, who would use morphia and cocaine.

By 1976, the mixture appeared in the British National Formulary, and became known by various names, including the Brompton cocktail. The post shared by Travbuc1 gave way for other users to share their own similar anecdotes of medicines which seem unbelievable in modern day. "They used to have pure, uncut, pharmaceutical grade coke in jars for the purpose. Back then, he was studying under a pharmacist who probably started before photography was invented.

 

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JonasAfrend I remember having cocaine injected into my gum before painful dental treatment. And isn't Novocaine a derivative ?

Sounds like Bromptons cocktail

In a free country this would be available over the counter. But it ain't a free country.

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