1900

  Read this, it's fascinating and brief.

Boredom Therapy: 19 Facts And Photos That Show How Brutal Life Was In The Early 1900s By Clayton Aldrich

5. Doctors commonly prescribed heroin to their patients: In fact, you didn’t even have to suffer from anything too severe to get the hard drug. Common ailments that garnered such a prescription included asthma, bronchitis, tuberculosis, and even the common cough.