Winslow's Soothing Syrup

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A highly successful patent medicine marketed to new parents for infant coughs, it contained opium and morphine, leading to deaths when overdoses occurred.

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Gerald Posner | The Pharmaceutical Industry | Lecture 1 (Official)

Peterson Academy

A highly successful patent medicine marketed to new parents for infant coughs, it contained opium and morphine, leading to deaths when overdoses occurred.