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Originally Posted by slotdirt
I'd love to know what doping techniques were widely used and available in 1919.
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recipes for hop were as plentiful as recipes for corn bread and coming by ingredients wasn’t hard.
Caffeine could be boiled out of black coffee.
Strychnine (also used by human athletes for speeding up muscle contractions) was a common rat poison. Even
cocaine, heroin, and morphine were legal for anyone with a doctor’s prescription to buy from a drugstore, until prohibited by the Harrison Act of 1914—and could be bribed from pharmacists long after that. But using those mixtures effectively was a fine art. Prudent trainers experimented during morning workouts, discovering the right dope and dose for each horse.