I’m currently researching what medicines the lads would have had access to, if they had a cold or headache or something even worse. I’m having so much fun with it that I thought I’d share some of what I’ve learned!
For Cough and Cold:
- White Pine and Tar Cough Syrup (chloroform) “For coughs, colds, hoarseness, sore throat, bronchitis, and all diseases of the throat and lungs”
- Tuckers V. Vegetable Extract: “warranted to cure asthma, bronchitis, canker, croup, coughs and colds, hoarseness, indigestion and sore throat”
- Shiloh’s Catarrh Remedy: “A speedy and positive cure for catarrh, cold in the head, sore throat, canker mouth, and nervous headache”
- Seabury’s Cough Balsam: “For coughs, colds, influenza, croup, whooping cough, asthma, other afflictions of the lungs and throat lading to consumption” “A marvelous cure for catarrh, diphtheria, canker mouth, and headache. With each bottle there is an ingenious Nasal Injector for the more successful treatment of these complaints” (50 cents)
- Dr. Lawrence’s Cough Balsam: (alcohol, cannabis, chloroform, antimony) “For coughs, colds, hoarseness, sore throat, tightness or soreness of the chest, whooping cough, bronchitis, croup, and all inflammations of the chest and lungs” Trial size 25 cents, family size $1 bottle
- Durno’s Catarrh Snuff: “For sore eyes, deafness, headache, and the worst forms of catarrh in the head and throat” (34 cents)
- Mann’s Wonderful Catarrh Remedy: “For catarrh, colds, headaches, sore throat”
- Z.C. Alden’s Catarrh Cure: “For catarrh, cold in the head, headache”
- Magic Cure for Chills and All Fevers: “Cures malarial fevers, headaches, dyspepsia, neuralgia, rheumatism, piles, costiveness”
- The “Allenburys” Throat Pastilles (diamorphine and cocaine or eucalyptus and cocaine, some also have menthol) by Allen and Hanbury, London
- Quaker’s Black Drops (opium-based lozenge)
- Dr. Barton’s “Brown Mixture” (opium/paregoric and licorice)
- Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral (cherry extract and morphine) “Cures colds, coughs and all diseases of the throat and lungs”
- Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry: (cherry bark, alcohol and opiate) “Of all the remedies ever discovered for the diseases of the Pulmonary Organs, it is universally admitted that nothing has ever proved as successful as that unrivaled medicine – Dr. Winstar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry, which has effected some of the most astonishing cures every recorded in the history of Medicine”
