JERAMIAH WEED A PART OF HISTORY AND A FAVORITE OF THE OLD BASTARDS

"Dope will get you through times of no money
better than money will get you through times of no dope."
Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
Dr. Ray Vaughn of Buffalo, New York, proprietor of a line of medicines including Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and his Extract of Smart Weed whose products were distributed world-wide was found by the Massachusetts State Board of Health in the 1880s to have opium in several of his products. However, when the Ladies Home Journal repeated the claims in an article in 1903. Dr. Pierce sued, and won, because the staff of the journal was unable to find in the hundreds of bottles they sampled a single one containing opium. Dr. Pierce had discontinued the addition of opium some ten years earlier.
The mother-in-law of Jeramiah Curtis, Mrs. Charlotte N. Winslow, a female physician and nurse studied teething among infants. She compounded a formula for a soothing syrup for children, the ingredients of which consisted of sulphate of morphia, sodium carbonate, spirits of foeniculi, and aqua ammonia. Not surprisingly, this medicine not only "soothed" the child, and relieved the pain of teething it put them into a sound sleep. First marketed in 1849 as "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup", the popularity of this medicine climbed to incredible heights under the management of Jeramiah Curtis. Marketed under the name Jeramiah's Smart Weed it spawned many imitators. The use of "soothing syrups" for infants was outlawed in the early 1900's.
Jeramiah Weed is now the official drink of the Old Bastard's Motorcycle Club.


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