Would it surprise you to know that Bayer sold heroin as an over-the-counter remedy for coughs in the early 1900s? By 1898, Bayer pharmaceutical found that, by boiling morphine for several hours, they could create diacetylmorphine, which they then called Heroin. It was said to cure bronchitis, tuberculosis and other cough-related diseases and in 1906 it was approved by the American Medical Association for general use and to replace the cough cure of choice at the time, morphine. Mrs. Winslow’s …