Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup was a concoction of sugar syrup and morphine sulfate. This is an ad for one of the favorite wines of its time, Vin Mariani, which contained cocaine. Coca Cola, when it was first marketed, contained a small amount of cocaine. Cocaine even found it’s way into some seemingly absurd products, such as Burnett’s cocaine hair dressing. Of course we cannot forget the cocaine toothache drops for children. Thus there was a very real health danger presented by the wide variety of patent medicine throughout the 19^th century.