What Medical Folks were Really Testing in the 50's

I happened to glimpse the video below yesterday. It's essentially a video of an "average" housewife from the 1950s (actual footage that just came out mind you) taking part in a medical experiment. I find it thought provoking for several reasons. Apparently, we all have the potential to sound like flower children from the 1960s when under the influence. Secondly, it's amazing how innocuous something may appear when it first makes its debut, regardless of potential danger, especially in the wrong hands.





Consider that cocaine was once used in "health tonics"; heroin was invented to be a less addictive painkiller than morphine. Even now, vitamins and drugs (both over the counter and prescriptive) that were and are considered "necessary to health" are frequently taken off the market to prevent heart attacks or other serious side effects. I wonder what present health trend will end up as hazardous to our health next? What do you think?

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