Tag Archives: Mesopotamia

Heroin – Purest and Best

Posted on 12 February 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

H E R O I N “In the City Market is the Meet Café. Followers of obsolete, unthinkable trades doodling in Etruscan, addicts of drugs not yet synthesized, pushers of souped-up harmine, junk reduced to pure habit offering precarious vegetable … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Druggist & Drugstore, History, Medicines & Cures | Tagged Bayer, C. R. Alder Wright, codeine, diacetylmorphine, diamorphine, Elberfeld, Felix Hoffmann, Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Sertürner, German, Glyco-Heroin, Harrison Narcotics Tax Act, Heroin, Mesopotamia, Morphine, opium, poppy, William S. Burroughs | Leave a comment

Maryo Visit to the Getty Villa

Posted on 20 April 2011 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Just in from Dave Maryo (FOHBC Western Region Director and President Los Angeles Historical Bottle Club) who with his wife Cindy, just visited the Getty Villa in Malibu this past weekend to see the Greek and Roman glass on display. … Continue reading →