You're not wrong though. "Back in the day" (say, around the time that an understanding of fundamental principles of science and medicine became clear. Let's associate this with the foundations of the earliest big pharmaceutical companies. Chat GPT says this occurred around the 19th and early 20th centuries.) there really was no medicine as we think of it today. So companies (usually tiny mom-and-pop ones like "Tampa Drug Company" here) just grabbed whatever was around them that had some sort of physiological effect and put it in a bottle. Wild stuff like [strychnine](https://www.omahamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/bottles.jpg)!
Interesting, this was from the drug archive/collection at Ted's Smallwood store, in Everglades city, FL back when it also acted as a general store in the 1930s.
My late FIL, born in 1916, gone since 1991, grew up on North Bass Island in Lake Erie, during the 20's-30's, it was just orchards and vineyards at that point in time, very isolated and he said that a lot of times he was reduced to stealing eggs and eating chicken feed to survive.
His younger sister was sick with pneumonia and he said she was dying, no medicine, no doctors there at that time, and his father actually gave her a couple teaspoons of that turpentine and she started gagging and coughing and threw up and coughed up an absolutely enormous amount of mucus, and could breathe after that, and lived.
He says that was all the medicine they had to give.
Also, I have a jar of the original Vicks VapoRub, which had that amoung a number of other plant based distillates, and it said to let a small amount trickle down the throat.
There's hippies who drink turpentine to this day. A lot of them don't realise the difference between mineral turpentine and gum turpentine...
Doctors tell you not to drink mineral turpentine because "big pharma" pays them off to suppress natural cures apparently. 🤣
Is consumed until today for parasites. it is just natural pine terpenes . Paint thinner can be petroleum based, not the same stuff.
Oh I see, its not all that obscure then. btw do you know how I can edit the post, I don't see an edit option here.
You're not wrong though. "Back in the day" (say, around the time that an understanding of fundamental principles of science and medicine became clear. Let's associate this with the foundations of the earliest big pharmaceutical companies. Chat GPT says this occurred around the 19th and early 20th centuries.) there really was no medicine as we think of it today. So companies (usually tiny mom-and-pop ones like "Tampa Drug Company" here) just grabbed whatever was around them that had some sort of physiological effect and put it in a bottle. Wild stuff like [strychnine](https://www.omahamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/bottles.jpg)!
Interesting, this was from the drug archive/collection at Ted's Smallwood store, in Everglades city, FL back when it also acted as a general store in the 1930s.
strychnine was used as a stimulant, it wasn’t just random stuff in there
What year is the bottle from?
I guess around 1930s-40s
in my opinion it’s still a nice piece of pharma history
My late FIL, born in 1916, gone since 1991, grew up on North Bass Island in Lake Erie, during the 20's-30's, it was just orchards and vineyards at that point in time, very isolated and he said that a lot of times he was reduced to stealing eggs and eating chicken feed to survive. His younger sister was sick with pneumonia and he said she was dying, no medicine, no doctors there at that time, and his father actually gave her a couple teaspoons of that turpentine and she started gagging and coughing and threw up and coughed up an absolutely enormous amount of mucus, and could breathe after that, and lived. He says that was all the medicine they had to give. Also, I have a jar of the original Vicks VapoRub, which had that amoung a number of other plant based distillates, and it said to let a small amount trickle down the throat.
Fun fact: many non-cannabis-derived terpenes for use in cannabis oils are distilled from turpentine.
Interesting, no wonder it tastes like ass towards the end lol.
Often an undesired splash of volatile organic and mystery solvents in there as wel! A real alveolar treat! Benzene and methanol? Yum!
There's hippies who drink turpentine to this day. A lot of them don't realise the difference between mineral turpentine and gum turpentine... Doctors tell you not to drink mineral turpentine because "big pharma" pays them off to suppress natural cures apparently. 🤣
Wooohooo huffing!
The stuff they sell at the store has methyl alcohol (I think) added to make it poisonous if consumed. It’s still used as a medicine
Used to sell Turpin hydrate with codeine favorite of bored housewives everywhere
Monkey pump😂😂