Winslow's Soothing Syrup: Morphine Menace

Winslow's Soothing Syrup: Morphine Menace

Winslow's Soothing Syrup was a medicine used in the early 1900s to quiet infants and teething children. Popular in the US and UK, it took twenty years of doctors' complaints before it was withdrawn from the market for being a "baby killer." Its main ingredient was morphine.

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