Eli Lilly
THE
ANTIQUE CANNABIS BOOK


With Over  600 2,000 Pre-1937 Medical Cannabis Products Documented;---a Great Resource book for the Antique Cannabis Collector



Updated Jan 2018
Now being updated and enlarged from the 2nd to 3nd editions.



Chapter 1 - CANNABIS - A Short History:
[Material Now Obsolete -- See 2nd Edition (below) for our new updated, enlarged & corrected historical section ]
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Chapter 2 - ANTIQUE CANNABIS
Of Forgeries And Reproductions:
MAD
  • 2.1 - Of Forgeries and Reproductions:
  • 2.2 - A Personal Story:
  • 2.3 - Proving Authenticity -- Several Rules Of Thumb:
  • 2.3.1 - Proof By the Aging Factors:
  • 2.3.2 - Proof By Surrounding Elements:
  • 2.3.3 - Proof Via the Apothecary Units:
  • 2.3.4 - Proof By Time Line:
  • 2.3.5 - Proof By Trivia (aka Knowledge is Power):
  • 2.3.6 - Proof By Practicality:
  • 2.3.7 - Proof By Technology:
  • 2.3.8 - Proof By Asking Questions:
  • 2.4 - Creating Your Own Fakes:
  • 2.5 - A Real World Problem:
  • 2.6 - What the Antique Collector Should Know:
  • Addendum 2a - INTERNET RIP-OFFS - 2nd Edition


    Chapter 3 - Era of the Apothecary Shop:
    • 3.0 - Apothecary (Cannabis) Containers:
    • 3.1 - About Apothecary Containers:
    • 3.2 - Apothecaries - (A Time Line):
    • 3.3 - Hemp Seed Oil:
    • 3.4 - Apothecary / Bulk Container:
    • 3.5 - Ceramic Jar Apothecaries:
    • 3.6 - Bulk Tin Containers:
    • 3.7 - Prices and Fraud Warnings:

    Chapter 4 - Cannabis Tinctures & Fluid-Extracts:
    • 4.1 - Cannabis Tinctures & Fluid-Extracts:
    • 4.1.1 - Tinctures:
    • 4.1.2 - Fluid-Extracts:
    • 4.1.3 - Historical Tinctures:
    • 4.1.4 - Cannabis Tinctures, Their Uses:
    • 4.2 - The Manufacture Of Tinctures:
    • 4.3 - From Apothecary To Brand-Name Tinctures:
    • 4.4 - Cases Of Cannabis Poisoning --- The Myth:
    • 4.5 - Parke-Davis Bottle:
    • 4.5.1 - Parke Davis -- What The Label Tells Us:
    • 4.5.2 - The Color Of The Bottle:
    • 4.5.3 - Sealing Their Products:
    • 4.6 - What The Bottle Seam Tells Us:
    • 4.7 - Of Bottle Molds:

    Chapter 5 - Bulk Cannabis Containers
    & Home Brew Medicines - 2nd Edition:
    Bulk
  • 5.0 - Bulk Cannabis Containers/ Home Brew Medicines:
  • 5.1 - About Bulk Cannabis(es):
  • 5.2 - About Prices:
  • 5.2.1 - Pre-1937 Pricing:
  • 5.3 - Sources of Bulk Cannabis:
  • 5.4 - Sources of Bulk Cannabis part ii:
  • 5.5 - Bulk Cannabis:
  • 5.6 - Large Tin Containers:
  • 5.6.1 - Fraud Watch:
  • 5.6.2 - Prices - Large Container Tins:
  • 5.7 - Home Brew Medicines:
  • 5.7.1 - PRICES -- Home Brew Medicines: Remedies:


  • Chapter 6 - Antique Corn Remedies - 2nd Edition: Foot
  • 6.0 - Corn Removers / External Lotions:
  • 6.1.0 - Why Cannabis?
  • 6.1.1 - Cannabis the Anti-Bacterial Agent:
  • 6.1.2 - Cannabis the Coloring Agent:
  • 6.1.3 - Supposed Localized Pain Killer:
  • 6.2.0 - Corn Remedies / Removers:
  • 6.2.1 - Corn Plasters:
  • 6.3 - Generic External Products:
  • 6.4 - Newspaper Articles:
  • 6.5 - Other External Lotions:
  • 6.5.1 - Liniments:
  • 6.5.2 - Hemp-seed-Oil:
  • 6.6 - Locating Antique Cannabis Corn Remedies:
  • 6.6.1 - General Prices:


  • Chapter 7 - Anti-Asthmatic Cigarettes: Cigarettes
  • 7.1 - The Cigarette--As a Drug Injection Mechanism:
  • 7.2 - What Is Asthma?
  • 7.3 - Anti-Asthma Cigarettes:
  • 7.4 - Indian Cigarettes by Grimault & Co.:
  • 7.4.1 - Grimault's and the Reefer Madness Era:
  • 7.5 - Other Brand Name Cannabis Cigarettes
  • 7.5.1 - Crescent Marque Cannabis Cigarettes:
  • 7.5.2 - Cannadonna (Asthma cigarettes):
  • 7.5.3 - Antidotal (smoking) Uses:
  • 7.6 - Medical Cigarette Cases:
  • 7.7 - Cigarette Comparison:
  • 7.8 - TRIVIA:
  • 7.8.1 - Bambu (cigarette Paper):
  • 7.8.2 - Prince Albert (in a Can):
  • Addendum 7a - 2nd Edition
    QUACK Cannabis (19TH Century) Inhaler
    Addendum 7b - 2nd Edition
    SAVAR'S [Era 1890's] Medical Cannabis Cigarettes

    CHAPTER 8 - CANNABIS COUGH SYRUPS:
    The 3rd Edition of "The Antique Cannabis Book" -- Last Update; May 2016
    Cough Syrup         CANNABIS COUGH SYRUPS:
    •   Pictures of Various Cannabis Cough Remedies
    •   8.0 - Cannabis Cough Syrups:
    •   8.1 - Cannabis in Cough syrups:
    •   8.2 - General Prices:



    Chapter 9 - Migraine Headaches & Powder Cannabis:
    • 9.0 - Of Migraine Headache And Powdered Cannabis:
    • 9.1 - Cannabis And Migraine Headaches:
    • 9.2 - Migraine Headache - A Personal Story:
    • 9.3 - Deadly Headache Cures:
      Chapter 9b - Powder Cannabis:
    • 9.4.1 - Migraines And Cannabis Powders:
    • 9.4.2 - Headache And Head Pains:
    • 9.4.3 - Gelatin Tables:
    • Chapter Appendix - A:

    Chapter 10 - Generic (Chlorodyne) Medicines:
    • 10.0 - Chlorodyne & Cannabis in the Era of Generic Medicines:
    • 10.1 - An Era of Generic Medicines:
    • 10.2 - Pre-1937 Generic (Cannabis) Compound Drugs:
    • 10.3 - Ethical verses Patent Medicines:
    • 10.4.1 - Chlorodyne --- The Wonder Drug of the 19th Century:
    • 10.4.2 - The Origin of Chlorodyne:
    • 10.4.3 - Chlorodyne - Saver of Lives:
    • 10.4.4 - Chlorodyne and the Opium Factor:
    • 10.5 - Prices:

    Chapter 11 - CANNABIS - A Century Of Medical Uses:
    • 11.0 - Cannabis In Western Medical History:
    • 11.1.1 - It's Medical Uses:
    • 11.1.2 - Warning:
    • 11.2 - Cannabis - Its Use By Western Medicine ( Paracelsus To 1840):
    • 11.2.1 - Antiques From This Era:
    • 11.3 - Cannabis; Its Use By Western Medicine [1840 - 1880]:
    • 11.3.2 - Gout And Rheumatism:
    • 11.3.3 - Tremens [Spasm]:
    • 11.3.4 - Stomach Worms:
    • 11.3.5 - Antiques From This Era:
    • 11.4 - Cannabis: Its Use By Western Medicine, 1880 -To- 1925:
    • 11.4.1 - Migraine Headache:
    • 11.4.2 - Cannabis The Aphrodisiac:
    • 11.4.3 - Cough Syrups:
    • 11.3.4 - Asthma / Bronchitis:
    • 11.4.5 - Addiction: [Treatment For]:
    • 11.4.6 - Stomach Diseases:
    • 11.4.7 - Female Problems:
    • 11.4.8 - Epilepsy:
    • 11.4.9 - Analgesic: [Pain Killer]:
    • 11.4.10 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases:
    • 11.4.11 - Hypnotics [Sleeping Pills]:
    • 11.4.12 - Mental Illnesses:
    • 11.4.13 - Neuralgia:
    • 11.4.14 - Odds And Ends:
    • 11.4.15 - Antique Collectibles From The Era:
    • 11.5 - Cannabis: A Time Of Mass-Hysteria; 1925 -To- 1937:
    • 11.6 - Cannabis After The Marihuana Tax Act:
    • 11.6.1 - The Marihuana Tax Act:
    • 11.6.2 - Bulk Cannabis:
    • 11.6.3 - Cannabinon Tablets:
    • 11.6.4 - Using Tax Records To Locate Cannabis Antiques:
    • 11.6.5 - A Slow End:
    • 11.6 - Final Warning:

    Chapter 12 - Advertising Ads and Brochures: Ad
  • 12.0 - Cannabis Advertisements:
  • 12.1.1 - Generic Advertisements:
  • 12.1.2 - Problems With Generic Ad's:
  • 12.2 - Pre-Civil War Cannabis Ad's:
  • 12.3 - World War I:
  • 12.4 - Other Types Of Advertisements:
  • 12.4.1 - Trade Cards:
  • 12.4.2 - Match Books & Post Cards:
  • 12.4.3 - Giveaway Almanacs:
  • 12.5 - Store Lobby Display Ad's:
  • ADDENDUM 12A - 2nd Edition
    Yet more Cannabis - Newspaper / Magazine Ads
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7
    WARNING:   Long download times but well worth it.


    Chapter 13 - Pharmaceutical Product Catalogs: National Drug
  • 13.1 - Squibb's Materia Medica (1919 edition) Product Catalog:
  • 13.2 - Squibb's Materia Medica (1919 edition) Product Catalog:
  • 13.3 - A Pharmaceutical Product Catalog:
  • 13.4 - Pharmaceutical Catalogs as Reference:
  • 13.5 - Selected Sections From the Catalog:
  • 13.6 - PRICES:

  • Addendum 13a - MORE CATALOGS - 2nd Edition
    Addendum 13b - 2nd Edition
    Curators Corner - Parke Davis & Co.


    Chapter 14 - Veterinary Medicines: - 2nd Edition Ad
  • 14.0 - Cannabis Veterinary Products:
  • 14.1 - Veterinary Products:
  • 14.2 - Parke Davis Veterinary products:
  • 14.3 - Prices -- Antique Veterinary products:

  • Chapter 15 - Quack Medicines: Quack
  • 15.1 - Quack Medicines:
  • 15.1.1 - The Halish Power or Bread of Mr. Noyes:
  • 15.1.2 - Dr. H. James Cannabis Elixir:
  • 15.1.3 - Piso's Cure For Consumption:
  • 15.1.4 - Questionable Cure for Morphine Addiction:
  • 15.1.5 - Kohler's One-Night-Cough Cure:
  • 15.2 - Non-Quack (But Alleged So) Medicines:
  • 15.2.1 - Hashish (asthmatic) Cigarette:
  • 15.2.2 - Hashessh (Medical) Candy:
  • 15.2.3 - Victor Infant Relief:
  • 15.3 - The Traveling Medicine Show:
  • 15.4 - Postscript:
  • Addendum 15a - MORE QUACK MEDICINES - 2nd Edition
    Addendum 15b - MORE QUACK MEDICINES - 2nd Edition


    Chapter 16 - Written Prescriptions:
    • 16.0 - Cannabis Medical Prescriptions:
    • 16.1 - Prescriptions, Their Origins:
    • 16.2 - Effects Of The Harrison Narcotics Act:
    • 16.3 - The Modern Era:
    • 16.4 - Sets:
    • 16.5 - California Prescriptions:
    • 16.6 - Why Many Cannabis Prescriptions Are Ignored:
    • 16.7 - Evaluating Cannabis Prescriptions:
    • 16.8 - Prices:
    • 16.8.1 - Caveat Emptor [Let The Buyer Beware]:

    Chapter 17 - CANNABIS Its Last Legal Days:
    • 17.0 - Cannabis; "Its Last Legal Days":
    • 17.1 - Why This Chapter:
    • 17.2 - What Was The Hysteria Campaign:
    • 17.3 - A Historical Perspective:
    • 17.4 - Reefer Madness, Before The Hysteria Campaign:
    • 17.5 - Factors That Led To The Hysteria Campaign:
    • 17.6 - The Coming Of Harry J. Anslinger:
      --- Catalyst Of Hysteria:
    • 17.7 - The Mechanisms Of The Campaign:
      --- How Cannabis Became Marihuana:
    • 17.8 - The Campaigns After Affects:
      --- The Campaigns Legacy:
    • 17.9 - The Campaigns Legacy For Antique Collectors:

    Chapter 18 - Sedatives, Hypnotics and Bromides:
    • 18.0 - Sedatives, Hypnotics and Bromides:
    • 18.1 - Some Weird Definitions:
    • 18.2 - Sedatives:
    • 18.3 - Hypnotics:
    • 18.4 - Treatment for Mental Illness:
    • 18.5 - Bromides:
    • 18.6 - Bromidia - Quite a product:

    CHAPTER 19 - MEDICAL HEMP SEED OIL:
    The 3rd Edition of "The Antique Cannabis Book" -- Last Update; Jan 2014
    hemp-oil-jar         HEMP SEED OIL AS MEDICINE:
    •   Pictures of Various Hemp Seed Oil
    •   19.0 - Hemp Seed Oil As Medicine:
    •   19.1 - Pharmaceutical Stores: :



    Chapter 20 - Present-Day Cannabis Medicines:
    • 20.0 - Present Day Medical Products:
    • 20.1 - Marinol -- The Synthetic Cannabis:
    • 20.2 - Yesterday's Antique Marinol:
    • 20.3 - Government Issued - Medical Marihuana Today:
    • 20.4 - Marihuana Tax Stamps:
    • 20.5 - Indian Medicine:
    • 20.6 - Jamaica The Land Of Gentle Breezes & Medical Cannabis:
    • 20.7 - Novelty Items:
    • 20.8 - Gw Pharmaceuticals:
    • 20.9 - General Prices, Health & Legal Warnings:

    CHAPTER 21 - CANNABIS AND FEMALE AILMENTS:
    The 3rd Edition of "The Antique Cannabis Book" -- Last Update; Dec 2013
    Eumetra         CANNABIS AND FEMALE AILMENTS:
    •   Pictures of Various Female Remedies
    •   21.0 - Cannabis And Female Ailments:
    •   21.1 - Cannabis As A Treatment For Female Ailments:
    •   21.2 - Pure Cannabis Verses Compound Medicines:
    •   21.3 - Cannabis & Female Ailments, The Text Book:



    Chapter 22 - TEXAS REPORT
    Reefer Madness
    Written in 1917, this 'Report Of Investigation In The State of Texas', provides proof that the Reefer Madness Campaign was well underway, way before Harry Anslinger . . . [MORE]

    CHAPTER 23 - NEURALGIA:
    The 3rd Edition of "The Antique Cannabis Book" -- Last Update; Feb 2014
    Neuralgia         CANNABIS AND NEURALGIA:
    •   About Neuraliga
    •   23.3 - Dr. Charles Edward Brown Square:
    •   23.4 - Dr. H. J. Kenyon:
    •   23.5 - Other Neuralgia Medicines:
    •   23.6 - Neuralgia Cannabis and the Medical Journals:


    Chapter 24 - Medical Travel Bags:
    • 24.0 - Medical Travel Bags:

    Chapter 25 - CANNABIS ODDs AND END's:
    A Place For Things That Don't Seem To Fit Anywhere Else
    Maltos
  • 25.0 - CANNABIS Odds And End's:
  • 25.1 - Early Attempts to Isolate the Active Ingredient/s of Cannabis Sativa:
  • 25.2 - No Name Drugs:
  • 25.3 - Of Black Sheep Drugs:
    a.k.a. - Those Cannabis Medicines We All Would Rather Had Never Been
  • 25.4 - Stuff That Just Don't Fit:
  • 25.5 - Unknown Uses:
  • 25.6 - None Cannabis, But of historical Interest:
  • Addendum 25a - 2nd Edition
    Of Hemp Bandages & Other Odds-and-Ends


    Chapter 26 - Cannabis & Compound Pharmaceuticals - 2nd Edition: Bell
  • 26.1 - CANNABIS & COMPOUND MEDICINES:
  • 26.2 - MEDICAL USES OF CANNABIS COMPOUND DRUGS:
  • 26.3 - PILL verses TABLETS verses CAPSULES:
  • 26.4 - COMPOUND CANNABIS DRUGS -- SOME EXAMPLES:
  • 26.5 - SHOTGUN MEDICINES:


  • AFTERWARDS:


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    THE ANTIQUE CANNABIS BOOK - 2nd EDITION
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    BOOK DEDICATION: Hubert
    This book is dedicated to the lasting memory of Senator Hubert Humphrey, may he never be forgotten.
  • Could Cannabis have saved Senator Humphrey's life?
  • Reflections on thousands of needless Cancer Deaths.

  • Chapter 1 - PRICES AND PRICING: Piggy
    What are your Antiques worth?
  • 1.0 - Prices & Pricing:
  • 1.1 - The National Drug Enforcement Industries:
  • 1.2 - Civic Organizations:
  • 1.3 - The War On Blacks:

  • Chapter 2 - CANNABIS - A Graphical History: create
    A Short Longer Graphical History:
    Originally (1st Edition), this chapter was en-titled, "A short Graphical History of Medical Cannabis," and was intended mostly for use by newspaper reporters who needed a quick yet well-documented resource on the subject. However, (now looking back with 20-20 hindsight) this has proven to be a major mistake on our part. . . .
      SECTION I - Cannabis and Pre-Written History:
    • 2.1 - The Neanderthals: --- 40,000 BC ; 2.2 - Pre-Recorded (Human) History)
      SECTION II - Cannabis and Religion:
    • 2.3 - The Creation: ; 2.4 - The Ancient Hebrews ; 2.5 - Jesus and Cannabis
      SECTION III - Cannabis and the Ancients
    • 2.6 - Ancient Egypt ; 2.7 - Mesopotamia & Assyria -- 3,000 BC ; 2.8 - Chinese Herbal -- 2000 BC ; 2.9 - Arabic Medicine
      SECTION IV - Cannabis and the Western Medicine
    • 2.10 - Greek-Roman Medicine 300 BC - 50 AD BC ; 2.11A - The Catholic Church and Medicine ; 2.11B - Burn the Witch ; 2.12 - The New Western Medicine ; 2.13 - Indian Medicine ; 2.14 - W. B. O'Shaughnessy ; 2.15 - 1837 - 1937 The Golden Age of Medical Cannabis ; 2.16 - POST-1937 The Dark Ages (part 2)
    Chapter 3 - MEDICAL CANNABIS - CENSORSHIP:
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    CANNABIS CENSORSHIP:
    -- Documented cases of out and out censorship of various Cannabis Medical Studies . . . what the D.E.A. does not want you to know.


    Chapter 4 - MEDICAL CANNABIS - STATE BY STATE:
    Calif. Flag
    CALIFORNIA:
    -- Before the coming of the anti-Medical Cannabis Laws

    Virginia Flag
    VIRGINIA:
    -- Before the coming of the anti-Medical Cannabis Laws

    OHIO Flag
    OHIO:
    -- Before the coming of the anti-Medical Cannabis Laws

    Texas Flag
    TEXAS:
    -- Before the coming of the anti-Medical Cannabis Laws

    Oklahoma Flag
    OKLAHOMA:
    -- Before the coming of the anti-Medical Cannabis Laws

    KANSAS Flag
    KANSAS:
    -- Before the coming of the anti-Medical Cannabis Laws

    N. Carolina Flag
    NORTH CAROLINA:
    -- Before the coming of the anti-Medical Cannabis Laws

    New Jersey Flag
    NEW JERSEY:
    -- Before the coming of the anti-Medical Cannabis Laws

    Illinois Flag
    ILLINOIS:
    -- Before the coming of the anti-Medical Cannabis Laws

    Delaware Flag
    DELAWARE:
    -- Before the coming of the anti-Medical Cannabis Laws

    New York Flag
    NEW YORK:
    -- Before the coming of the anti-Medical Cannabis Laws

    Loisiana flag
    LOUISIANA:
    -- Before the coming of the anti-Medical Cannabis Laws



    APPENDIXES:

    Appendix A - Pre-1937 Cannabis Manufacturers: --
    Over 280 manufacturers identified.

    Appendix B - Medical Journal Articles:

    Appendix C - U.S. Pharmacopoeia:

    Appendix D - National Formulary:

    Appendix E - "Physiological Testing":
    [aka - Doing it on the Dog]:


    Appendix G - Museum CD Rom Collection:





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