Demon Rum Leads To Heroin
Summary
Editorial cartoon showing Uncle Sam bothered by Demon Rum MD. and seven monsters of drug addition which follow him. 1919.
Figures in drawing: Uncle Sam (seated), labeled demons DEMON RUM MD., LAUDANUM, OPIUM, COCAINE, HASHISH, HEROIN, ETHER, CHLORAL.
Caption below: "And the last state of that man is worse than the first" (from Matthew 12:43-45, KJV)
Images of the original pencil-and-ink sketch can be found here (in smaller size, without caption).
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Date
1919
Source
Scanned by Infrogmation from copy of June 26 1919 "Life" magazine
Copyright info
Public Domain