Kopé Opium Paste for Coughs
Antique tin medicine box - Pharmacy - Apothecary
Medical Confectionery: Circa 1920
Paradoxes of the antique pharmacy, where notorious poisons were presented in the guise of harmless sweets.
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Kopé Opium Paste for Coughs
Antique tin medicine box – Pharmacy – Apothecary
Medical Confectionery: Circa 1920
Lithographed metal advertising tin for Kopé Paste, a chest remedy for coughs.
It perfectly embodies the paradoxes of old-fashioned pharmacy, where notorious poisons were presented in the guise of harmless sweets.
Once again, it is Dr Salmon who manufactures them, already known before the war for Salmon’s Opium Lozenges.
The back of the tin indicates that it was manufactured by the French Pharmaceutical Cooperative under the direction of Dr Salmon.
Kopé Paste marks the transition to industrial-scale production of his traditional pharmaceutical formulations.
The design is typical of late Art Nouveau, with its stylised plant motifs, whilst adopting a slightly more geometric structure that heralds the beginnings of Art Deco.
The “Opium & Belladonna” Cocktail
Whilst the box boasts a “delicious sweet” flavoured with mandarin essence designed to “quench the thirst of those with a fever”, its quantitative formula on the back reveals a formidable therapeutic arsenal.
Thebaine Extract (Opium): Present at a level of 0.04 g of the total weight of the formula. At the maximum recommended adult dosage (16 to 20 pieces per day), the patient consumed approximately 10 mg of opium per day. This regular intake acted as a powerful central sedative.
Belladonna extract: Also dosed at 0.04 g. This plant, rich in atropine, was used here as an antispasmodic to mechanically suppress the cough reflex and dry out the bronchial tubes.
Containing a lower dose of raw opiates than the old Salmon lozenges, Kopé Paste compensated for this with the combined effect of Opium and Belladonna.
This psychoactive cocktail, masked by the sweet taste of mandarin, provided immediate relief coupled with a ‘woolly-headed’ effect, encouraging compulsive consumption throughout the day: as many as 20 pieces a day...!
Specific Paediatric Note: The recommended dosage allowed for 8 to 10 pieces a day for children aged 3 and over, a practice unthinkable today.
Dimensions: 9.5x6cm
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Kopé Opium Paste for Coughs
Antique tin medicine box - Pharmacy - Apothecary
Medical Confectionery: Circa 1920
Paradoxes of the antique pharmacy, where notorious poisons were presented in the guise of harmless sweets.
EMPTY
