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!<\/p>\n

For Cough and Cold:<\/strong><\/p>\n

White Pine and Tar Cough Syrup<\/b> (chloroform) \u201cFor coughs, colds, hoarseness, sore throat, bronchitis, and all diseases of the throat and lungs\u201d $\"MED_Pine_Tar\"$ <\/a><\/li>\n
Tuckers V. Vegetable Extract:<\/b>\u00a0\u201cwarranted to cure asthma, bronchitis, canker, croup, coughs and colds, hoarseness, indigestion and sore throat\u201d<\/li>\n
Shiloh\u2019s Catarrh Remedy<\/b>: \u201cA speedy and positive cure for catarrh, cold in the head, sore throat, canker mouth, and nervous headache\u201d $\"MED_Shiloh\"$ <\/a><\/li>\n
Seabury\u2019s Cough Balsam<\/b>: \u201cFor coughs, colds, influenza, croup, whooping cough, asthma, other afflictions of the lungs and throat lading to consumption\u201d \u201cA 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\u201d (50 cents)<\/li>\n
Dr. Lawrence\u2019s Cough Balsam<\/b>: (alcohol, cannabis, chloroform, antimony) \u201cFor coughs, colds, hoarseness, sore throat, tightness or soreness of the chest, whooping cough, bronchitis, croup, and all inflammations of the chest and lungs\u201d Trial size 25 cents, family size $1 bottle\u00a0 $\"MED_Cough_Balsam\"$ <\/a><\/li>\n
Durno\u2019s Catarrh Snuff<\/b>: \u201cFor sore eyes, deafness, headache, and the worst forms of catarrh in the head and throat\u201d (34 cents)<\/li>\n
Mann\u2019s Wonderful Catarrh Remedy<\/b>: \u201cFor catarrh, colds, headaches, sore throat\u201d $\"MED_Manns\"$ <\/a><\/li>\n
Z.C. Alden\u2019s Catarrh Cure<\/b>: \u201cFor catarrh, cold in the head, headache\u201d<\/li>\n
Magic Cure for Chills and All Fevers<\/b>: \u201cCures malarial fevers, headaches, dyspepsia, neuralgia, rheumatism, piles, costiveness\u201d<\/li>\n
The \u201cAllenburys\u201d Throat Pastilles<\/b> (diamorphine and cocaine or eucalyptus and cocaine, some also have menthol) by Allen and Hanbury, London\u00a0 $\"MED_Allenbury\"$ <\/a><\/li>\n
Quaker\u2019s Black Drops<\/b> (opium-based lozenge)<\/li>\n
Dr. Barton\u2019s \u201cBrown Mixture\u201d <\/b>(opium\/paregoric and licorice)<\/li>\n
Ayer\u2019s Cherry Pectoral<\/b>\u00a0(cherry extract and morphine) \u201cCures colds, coughs and all diseases of the throat and lungs\u201d\u00a0 $\"MED_Cherry_Pectoral\"$ <\/a><\/li>\n
Wistar\u2019s Balsam of Wild Cherry<\/b>: (cherry bark, alcohol and opiate) \u201cOf 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\u2019s Balsam of Wild Cherry, which has effected some of the most astonishing cures every recorded in the history of Medicine\u201d $\"MED_Wistars\"$ <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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