Remedies and Cures

As the Maucher Letters testify, see exhibits section, the increased marketing of pharmacutical grade opiate and cocaine remedies resulted in ncreased concerns about the well being of those who had become addicted to such preparations. Whilst drug use was not criminalised in America until the advent of the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act, the evident concern about their use opened up a new market to those opportunists professing to have developed miracle cures for anyone in the grip of addiction.

Purchased by the Museum of Drugs Paraphernalia and Related Antiquities October 2009

I want other women to profit by my example - Mrs Katie Lynch

DRUNKENNESS, LIQUOR HABIT

In all the World there is but one Cure. Dr. Haine’s GOLDEN
SPECIFIC. It can be given in a cup of coffee or tea, or in
articles of food, without the knowledge of the patient, if
necessary. It is absolutely harmless, and will effect a per-
manent and speedy cure, whether the patient is a moderate
drinker or an alcoholic wreck. It never fails.

It operates so quietly and with such certainty that the patient
undergoes no inconvenience, and ere he is aware, his com-
plete reformation is effected. 48 page book of particulars
free.–H. HODDER & Co., Agents, Broad Street, Bristol.
Trade supplied by LYNCH & CO., LONDON.

The Bristol Mercury and Daily Post, Friday 20th Feb 1891