That's kinda how it worked actually, have you seen the ingredients on that bottle of old timey cough syrup? Alcohol, Cannabis, Chloroform and Morphine, like holy crap, they didn't play around back then.
In my old school we would go to Ballarat for a school camp and we'd become actors in the 1800's. We'd be poor kids in the school that tourists would walk around in, a doctor would come in and tell us stuff and at the time I had a cold and he said I was dying and that I needed to put cow shit on my chest.
Apparently back then they believed that the bad smell from cow poo would expel evil spirits and warm my chest back up, it was pretty cool.
My friend who couldn't wear her glasses (cause her type wasn't old enough) had to put rotten apples on her eyes.
My friend who couldn't wear her glasses (cause her type wasn't old enough) had to put rotten apples on her eyes.