Ten Dangerous Drugs Once Marketed As Medicine

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, people suffering from any number of diseases and bodily discomforts could find what were touted as cures at their local pharmacy. Chloroform, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine were offered as solutions for everything from sore throats and toothache to coughs, insomnia and depression.

These substances were often highly addictive, dangerous, and sometimes deadly. Most are now restricted - if not banned from the market. Take a look and see what the field of medicine was like not so very long ago.