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Dr. Miller's Anodyne for Babies (morphin sulphate and chloral 

 hydrate.) 



Dr. Moffett's Teethina, Teething Powders (powdered opium.) 

 Victor Infant Relief (chloroform and cannabis indica.) 

 Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup (morphin sulphate.) 



MEDICATED SOFT DRINKS. 



There is another class of products not medicines which contain 

 some of these same drugs. These are the so-called "soft drinks" 

 sold at soda fountains, drug stores and such places. Quite a number 

 now on the market contain both of the habit-forming agents, cocain 

 and caffein. It is not uncommon to find persons addicted to the use 

 of medicated soft drinks. It is also a well-known fact that many 

 factory employees, stenographers, typewriters, and others subject 

 to mental or nervous strain spent a large part of their earnings for 

 drinks of this character. In passing it may be of interest to note 

 that life insurance companies are considering the status of soft-drink 

 habitues as future risks. 



It is well known that parents, as a rule, withhold tea and coffee 

 from their children, but having no knowledge of the presence of 

 cocain, caffein, or other deleterious agents in soft drinks, they un- 

 wittingly permit their children to be harmed by their use. Man- 

 ufacturers of drinks of this class, containing cocain, have been suc- 

 cessfully prosecuted, for example, Koca Nola, Celery Cola, Wiseola, 

 Pillsbury's Koke, Kola-Ade, Kos-Kola, Cafe-Coca, and Koke. 



TREATMENTS FOR DISEASES OF THE NOSE AND LUNGS. 



The number of remedies concocted for the treatment of these 

 afflictions is legion. Their vaunted values are, as a rule, dependent 

 upon the presence of certain powerful drugs, such agents as cocain,, 

 chloral hydrate, codein, heroin, morphin, opium, and tobacco being 

 present. Most prominent among the diseases for which such reme- 

 dies are offered are asthma, catarrh, colds, coughs, consumption, and 

 hay fever. 



Asthma Remedies. The exact cause of asthma is not definitely 

 known by the medical profession at present. There is no known 

 treatment which will eradicate the disease. There are, however, a 

 goodly number of specifics and cures exploited at present which have 

 as their basic agents cocain, morphin, opium, or chloral hydrate. An 

 example of the cocain type is Tucker's Asthma Specific, which con- 

 sists of a solution of cocain, to be used as a spray with an atomizer. 

 It is true that the amount of cocain introduced into the nose by 

 means of a spray is small, but exceedingly small amounts are re- 

 quired, when used in this manner, to produce constitutional effects. 

 In fact, this is the popular manner in which cocain is taken by those 

 addicted to its use. They are commonly known as sniffers or coke 

 sniffers because of the fact that the cocain is sniffed into the nose. 



Ascatco, an opium, arsenic preparation, represented as an Aus- 

 trian product, is also largely used as a remedy for asthma. Davis' 

 Asthma Remedy, put on the market by a dealer in real estate, con- 

 tains chloral hydrate; each dose contains from 1 to 8 grains. 



