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Episode No. 1 · November 11, 2026 Out now

What the 1890s Drugstore Sold Without a Prescription

Opium for ten cents, a syrup for the cradle, cocaine drops for a toothache. A walk through the drug pages of the 1897 Sears catalog, and the long road to the labels we read today.

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No. 1What the 1890s Drugstore Sold Without a PrescriptionOut now
No. 2What Childbirth on the Frontier Was Really LikeNov. 18
No. 3What a Country Doctor Carried on Horseback in 1890Nov. 25
No. 4Mary Ingalls, 1879: Was It Really Scarlet Fever?Dec. 2