Jul 13
I had the opportunity to purchase asthma cigarette packaging dead stock the other day and passed it up because it wasn't Victorian or Edwardian and now my brain can't stop thinking about it.
I should have bought it. It could have been friends with the Opium script and croup med advert card from 1889. :(
#essi rambles#historical medicine#historical medicine collector#im so mad at myself because historical treatments for asthma specifically happen to be one of my top interests in the area#but like the 1930s is not an era I feel a draw to?#the specific range of years I am drawn to are 1888-1912 but I expand to 1850s-1920 to make things easier for myself#i can also confirm that some historical asthma treatments work#specifically those involving coffee or tea because I'm not going to test poisons on myself out of curiosity#but there was a time when I was broke where I experimented with the safer methods so that I could hang out at cat rescues
