The Age of Drugs. Satirical artwork showing the interior of an early-20th-century drugstore. The pharmicist (right) is dispensing labelled medicine bottles to his customers. The bottles on the counter include arsenic,strychnine,opium,and cocaine. At left,a saloon keeper is leaning against a column,and the caption (bottom) indicates that he can't compete with the new drug trade. This chromolithograph,by US cartoonist Louis Dalrymple (1866-1905) was published in New York,USA,as a centrefold in the magazine 'Puck' (volume 48,number 1231,10 October 1900) |