Archive for May 7th, 2008

Weird Health Wednesdays: 4 Scary Historical Asthma Meds

I love you, North Carolina. (wipes tear) And now for some old asthma *remedies,* most of which contained arsenic and/or iodides, from the archives of the AAAAI via the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee library. These are the sorts of things that make me appreciate inhalers and prednisone. Click the links for photos. Kutnow’s Anti-Asthmatic Powder This “palliative for asthmatic paroxysms” [...]
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