Ever seen the ingredients list of those old timey-wimey sleep medications? It helps that they have gone viral a while back, but if you missed out on those memes, here’s a quick recap.
In the days before research and the FDA was established (so, about the whole of human history and through the Victorian era until the early 20th Century) medications of all kinds – for both adults and children, mind – contained some ingredients we would now consider hard drugs.
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