mrs. aldridge. and for your bad knee i'll write a prescription for laudanum. and for your insomnia i'll write a prescription for laudanum until i see you next." for whatever ailed you you would get a prescription for laudanum. with all opiates it's addictive. this could be over a couple of months or even a shorter duration than that, if you take it regularly it's going to be hard to stop taking it. and remember this cartoon. because it's significant in a number of ways. and we'll come back to that later on. this is one of the interesting things. it's a label for a bottle of laudanum produced by writer brothers drug company somewhere in utah. but what i found was interesting -- and again it's 48% alcohol so it's 96 proof. so even if you were just drinking it without the opium it would have a kick to it. look at the antidote. strong emetic or stomach pump, i got that. dash cold water in the face. keep in motion. artificial expiration. galvanic battery. this must have been before we were quite as litigious a society as we are now. before torts became so important