Help me find a drug advertisement please.
September 8, 2006 9:08 AM Subscribe
I'm looking for old ads of when various illegal drugs were still legal. One in particular.
I've used GIS and found a few, but not the one I'm looking for. There was one posted to the blue some time ago that was for putting kids to sleep. I can not recall the name of it and my searching hasn't revealed it either. I don't recall what the active ingrediant in the ad was but it may have been heroin.
I'm also looking for other collections beyond what GIS can provide. Any suggests?
I've used GIS and found a few, but not the one I'm looking for. There was one posted to the blue some time ago that was for putting kids to sleep. I can not recall the name of it and my searching hasn't revealed it either. I don't recall what the active ingrediant in the ad was but it may have been heroin.
I'm also looking for other collections beyond what GIS can provide. Any suggests?
Corbis is a big stock photo collection. They have lots of historical stuff. I searched for "drug ads" and then clicked on "Historical" and got some good hits.
posted by GuyZero at 9:16 AM on September 8, 2006
posted by GuyZero at 9:16 AM on September 8, 2006
Response by poster: interrobang:
No, not that one. I seem to recall it described what it was supposed to do. Something in my head says Night was in the name, but I'm not sure on that.
posted by [insert clever name here] at 9:43 AM on September 8, 2006
No, not that one. I seem to recall it described what it was supposed to do. Something in my head says Night was in the name, but I'm not sure on that.
posted by [insert clever name here] at 9:43 AM on September 8, 2006
If you had an email address in your profile I wouldn't (yet again) submit a self link, but I really can't be assed copying the URLs across.
As to search terms (if it doesn't turn up with those links) I guess I would try for 'history of medicine' 'history of pharmacy' --- looking for image databases rather than an individual advertisement. When you get to the dbase, then do some more specific searches.
posted by peacay at 10:00 AM on September 8, 2006
As to search terms (if it doesn't turn up with those links) I guess I would try for 'history of medicine' 'history of pharmacy' --- looking for image databases rather than an individual advertisement. When you get to the dbase, then do some more specific searches.
posted by peacay at 10:00 AM on September 8, 2006
Maybe you are thinking of peragoric.
posted by StickyCarpet at 11:26 AM on September 8, 2006
posted by StickyCarpet at 11:26 AM on September 8, 2006
1)Before Prohibition: Images from the preprohibition era when many psychotropic substances were legally available in America and Europe
2)The japanese gallery of psychiatric art
posted by daksya at 11:35 AM on September 8, 2006
2)The japanese gallery of psychiatric art
posted by daksya at 11:35 AM on September 8, 2006
Here's an interesting one for Heroin, among other things. I actually ran across it when doing some work-related research.
posted by lackutrol at 2:24 PM on September 8, 2006
posted by lackutrol at 2:24 PM on September 8, 2006
This fascinating page entitled "Before Prohibition" from the Univ. of Buffalo has all sorts of marketing images, including the old Coke ingredient list, Stickney & Poors' opium-laced Paregoric (with dosage guide for infants up to adults), Bayer's Heroin cough sedative, and an in-flight Pan Am menu from the early 50s listing benzedrine inhalers!
Also, here's an ad for Pernod absinthe from Wikipedia.
Knock yourself out!
posted by rob511 at 2:25 PM on September 8, 2006
Also, here's an ad for Pernod absinthe from Wikipedia.
Knock yourself out!
posted by rob511 at 2:25 PM on September 8, 2006
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posted by geoff. at 9:11 AM on September 8, 2006