Or alcohol. Or boiled poppy to make them calmer.

Everyone has been fed small amounts of alcohol as a child though - it's in everything from fruit to bread.

That was/is a thing? Opiods? Actual amount in there is the other question but still

Yes, _huge_ thing. Most ‘patent medicines’ were either booze or laudanum.

My grandma talked about it. With "I haven't done that" comment, but yeah, apparently it was something she got advised to do in all seriousness.