Conny Braam, a really cool lady who was chairman of the Dutch branch of the anti-Apartheid movement for 25 years, wrote a book about the Dutch cocaine factory, which was cranking out marching powder (literally) between 1900 and It also turns out.
Stickney and Poor's Paregoric was a mixture of opium and alcohol. Doses for infants, children, and adults are given on the bottle, starting at babies 5 days old. Mothers rubbed this on their babies gums for teething. My mom told me about this stuff!
