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[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Oh, if I was picking something for an old timey doctor to prescribe me it would probably be laudanum

[-] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 9 points 5 hours ago

Or cocaine .. but why not both?

[-] trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Or heroin, the new, non addictive cough medicine!

And anything with radium, of course.

[-] arrow74@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

Or heroin

That's basically what Laudanum was.

A nice mix of opium/morphine and alcohol sometimes up to 48%

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 39 minutes ago

Sounds like a fun weekend

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