113 Drugs in the Age of War & Adventure - More than You Thought

The History of American Food · Feb 21, 2024 · 24m

Well here's a weird little detour for you - not food exactly, but ingested by early Americans all the same. Not so much by soldiers and adventurers on the road - but often when they were let on leave - especially if they were rich.

Lots of people were doing lots more drugs in early America than I thought - but in different ways and by different folks than I expected. Little old rich ladies were the most common opium addicts? Who knew? Me now.

And American and European medicine had little interest in anasthesia apparently. Wild.

Just whatever you do - don't get hurt on the battlefield. Dodge…