If you were lucky enough to sip some cough syrup in the 1800’s, your dose could have included hits of alcohol (less than 1%), choloroform and an indica strain of marijuan to put you in the couch.
See the pic below for proof.
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Too Much Sauce: You Won’t Believe What They Used To Put In Cough Syrup was originally published on globalgrind.com