Oct 12, 2015
Jul 3, 2015
Jun 30, 2015
Oct 27, 2014
Oct 23, 2014
Oct 19, 2014
Vin Mariani, the Bordeaux wine with coca leaves
Litography by Jules Chéret, 1894
The ethanol in the wine extracted the cocaine from the coca leave, altering the drink's effect. The Vin Mariani contained 6 mg of cocaine per fluid ounce, (0.028 l) but the exported drink contained 7.2 mg per ounce to compete with the similar drinks in the United States.
Some famous people and royalties liked the Mariani wine, Queen
Victoria, Pope Leo XIII, Pope Saint Pius X, Jules Verne, Alexandre
Dumas, Emile Zola, Thomas Edison and Ulysses S. Grant, among others.
Pope Leo XIII used to carry a bottle with him all the time.
He awarded Angelo Mariani (the producer) with a Vatican gold medal.
He awarded Angelo Mariani (the producer) with a Vatican gold medal.
This patent medicine was created by a French chemist, Angelo Mariani in 1863 and was the most famous Coca wine of it's time.
Opium for Asthma
40% alcohol plus 3 grams of opium per tablet
Used as an analgesic and as a remedy for asthma, coughs and pneumonia
Used as an analgesic and as a remedy for asthma, coughs and pneumonia
This National Vaporizer Vapor-OL (opium) Treatment no. 6 for asthma may have provided a unique method of essentially “smoking” opium. The volatile liquid was placed in a pan that was heated by a small kerosene lamp. Other substances were also used in these early (c.1890) vaporizers, but this mixture probably ensured plenty of visitors for the spasmodically affected.
Vapo-cresolene lamps were marketed primarily to vaporize creosol-based products for the relief of head and chest congestion. However, they were also used with other products such as the opium-based asthma medicine shown above.
This advertisement is for Glyco-Heroin which was manufactured by the Martin H. Smith Company (New York). Heroin was widely used not only as an analgesic but also as a remedy for asthma, coughs, and pneumonia. Mixing heroin with glycerin (and often adding sugar or spices) made the bitter-tasting opiate more palatable for oral consumption. (From International Medical Magazine, January, 1902.)
These Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Company were marketed for the relief of asthma.
Well
It didn't cure you... but you didn't care!
Mar 19, 2014
Feb 25, 2014
Hallucinogen Honey Hunters
"Mad honey hunters" - "les chasseurs de miel fou"
A tribe of Nepal hunt a wild honey with natural psychoactive properties ("mad honey")they use it as a medicine and a soft drug.
Dipak, the translator of this movie is overdosing and fall unconcious.
by Raphael Treza youtube.com
Jul 18, 2013
Mar 26, 2013
Mar 21, 2013
o tabaco da vida
Mario Quintana
Tennessee Williams
Mark Twain
John Steinbeck
Albert Camus
W. H. Auden
Andre Malraux
Albert Camus
Gilles Deleuze
Antoine Saint-Exupéry
Mar 20, 2013
Mar 9, 2013
High Priest
High Priest By Timothy Leary
1995 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 0914171801 | EPUB | 5 MB
1995 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 0914171801 | EPUB | 5 MB
Back in print after 20 years, this text from the earliest days of psychedelia chronicles the experiences on 16 acid trips taken before LSD was illegal. The trip guides or "high priests" included Aldous Huxley, Ram Dass, Ralph Meltzner, Huston Smith and a junkie from New York City named Willy. It tells of the goings-on and freaking out at the Millbrook mansion in New York State that became the Mecca of psychedelia during the 1960s, and of the many luminaries who made their pilgrimage there to trip with Leary and his group. Chapters include an I Ching reading and a chronicle of what happened during those "spacewalks" of the mind.
.jpeg)
Feb 28, 2013
Feb 21, 2013
Feb 6, 2013
Theodore Metcalf's Coca Wine
“Metcalf's Coca Wine was one of a large number of cocaine-containing wines available on the market. All claimed medicinal effects, although they were undoubtedly consumed for their "recreational" value as well.” Coca wine contained 30 grains of Erythroxylum coca (from which Cocaine is made) per ounce of wine.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)