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đź’Š In 1885, you bought cocaine for your kid's toothache. At the drugstore.
A 3-card period-faithful reconstruction of Lloyd Manufacturing Co.'s documented 1880s cocaine toothache drops — Card A is a full Victorian apothecary lithograph broadside ad, Card B is an 1880s Harper's Weekly-style era-context card explaining the pre-Harrison Narcotics Act world, Card C is a modern-impossibility note in the same period typographic palette citing the Controlled Substances Act of 1970.
May 29, 2026 · 6:05 AM
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No prescription. No pharmacist consultation. Fifteen cents.
Lloyd Manufacturing Co. sold cocaine toothache drops openly across the United States — marketed to mothers, endorsed by dentists, stocked on apothecary shelves right next to the cough syrup.
The idea that this substance was dangerous? That hadn't been invented yet.
Card 2 is the decade that made this possible: an era when "cocaine" appeared in pharmaceutical catalogues the way aspirin does today.
Card 3 is what happens if you try any of this now.
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