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What drug was originally marketed as a cough medicine for children?

Many well-known drugs were originally promoted as medicines. For example, heroin was introduced to the market in 1898 by the German company Bayer AG as a cough medicine for children. Although after 15 years its production in this status was stopped, even before 1971 heroin could be bought in German pharmacies. The medical history of cocaine is even richer: numerous experiments in the second half of the 19th century gave rise to scientists recommending it for anesthesia and increasing endurance. Sigmund Freud, after testing the properties of cocaine on himself, promoted it as a cure for depression, sexual disorders, syphilis, and alcoholism. Freud claimed that cocaine was not addictive, but this was subsequently refuted, and cocaine was gradually banned in all countries.

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Most large sharks can mostly be found in the open sea at the surface of the water. But there are also those that are found deep at the ocean floor. Smaller sharks usually live near coasts and can be found in most seas where the climate is warm and temperate. Many consider sharks to be very dangerous.

In fact, there are dangerous sharks, and there are harmless ones. For example, the sharks that often follow ships are harmless "scavengers" that pick up leftover food from ships. These sharks are not afraid of even small fish. In the same way, some very large sharks are not dangerous if they are not attacked. One such shark is the whale shark. It can be found in the Mediterranean Sea, in the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea near Florida. Its length sometimes exceeds 11 meters, and its weight is 13 tons.

The giant shark is another one of the "safe" big sharks. This is the largest fish in the North Atlantic, its length is more than 13 meters. She loves to soak up the sun with her back out of the water. But the most terrible of all fish is the giant white shark, sometimes reaching a length of 12 meters. She definitely attacks people.

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