mrs. winslow's syrup. mrs. win low's soothing syrup has been used for over 60 years by millions of mothers for their children while teething. with perfect success. eases the pain. cures colic. it's the best remedy for diarrhea. sold by druggists in every part of the world. again, your kid might be teething, or it might just cry a lot and annoy you. maybe it's got the colic. i'll give it some mrs. winslow's, and it will go to sleep. so there's that. another thing -- and this is very interesting. paregoric was often used for diarrhea or respiratory complaints. look at the dosing guide on the back of the bottle. five days old, five drops of paregoric. two weeks old, eight drops. i know some of you are parents here. a 5-day-old baby is really small. it's only been breathing on its own for hours, right? you're going to give it a pretty powerful narcotic over the counter. >> minus the opium, that's a ton of alcohol for a baby. >> yeah. >> probably a couple shots' worth if you're an adult. >> yeah. they don't do that

mrs. winslow's soothing syrup. >> mrs. winslow's soothing syrup. >> certainly astrogenic addition, physician induced, is going to be more prevalent in those groups who can go to doctors and that's why the average opium addict was a white, middle-class woman where it was acceptable and common practice to go to a physician for a variety of different ailments and complaints, and you could also afford to do that. probably laudanum was known among other classes of folks, but they might -- probably didn't use it as much because it wasn't recommended. certainly morphine would not have been as accessible unless you went to a doctor. so that it's probably why it was centered in the middle class and particularly among women. >> from reading your late 19th century england, too, wasn't laudanum pretty much recognized in england as a problem? >> sure. i think it was recognized in the united states, too. >> at this time in late 19th century it was recognized here? >> sure. >> you can see that with the wyatt earp story, his first compani