A bed of syringes.  From Woroni, 1980.

From Nebelspalter, 1904.

"Can pills cure anxiety?"  From Awake magazine, 1958.

A safely-bottled technology for yellow-cake heacaches.  From Woroni, 1977.

"Horible [sic] Medicine Awful Bitter."  From Cine-Mundial, 1920.

A bitter dose.  From UNC Chapel Hill's 1907 yearbook.

Before and after drinking a patent elixir.  Page four of the 64-page booklet about the medicine promises curative powers as if you are "under a spell."  Note the purveyor of the elixir—truth in advertising!  From 1895.

"Some laxatives taste like library paste and some like rancid pickles."  From Adventure magazine, 1935.

"I still live, but like 666, by the aid of drugs.  Pain, pain, pain!  But, before I die, I must tell all.  I mustn't wander - must conserve all my energies to tell all."  From Secrets of the Kaula Circle by Elizabeth Sharpe, 1936.

From The Film Daily, 1926.

From Woroni, 1979.

You've seen some really screwed up architecture, and here's why -- buildings can be on drugs, too.  From Woroni, 1980.

From Woroni, 1979.

"Throw away those headache pills!"  From The Film Daily, 1938.

To make this current, change "million" to "trillion."  From The Gateway, 1981.

From the University of Chicago's 1912 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

From Mary Washington's 1914 yearbook.

Having shot his patient with pills from a revolver, a doctor sips a cocktail next to the shrouded corpse.  Refreshingly honest, at least.  It's the front cover of Medical College of Virginia's 1979 yearbook.  See Of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead.