Cough Syrup - wow!

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Wow, one night is a good name for this, look at this ingredient list ;)

MECO28 said:
"Skillfully combined with a number of other ingredients"...

Well, thank heavens it wasn't UNskillfully combined!

Anyone want to hazard a guess at to what the "number of other ingredients" might have been? ?

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Specializes in ICU, telemetry, LTAC.

I'm not too keen on the chloroform, but the rest of it sounds like it would do the trick. I'd wake up three days later, on earth or in heaven, and presto! Cough is gone!

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Specializes in LTC.

Brings back an old saying "if it doesn't kill you it will cure you" and seems to ring true!

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Dialysis.

Holy Smokes!! I am a little terrified thinking about what "other ingredients" might be skillfully combined with that mix..

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Specializes in CICU.

{cough}{cough}...

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Specializes in Emergency.

This is the kind of "syrup" that makes you cough...

:spit:

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How many remember Paregoric? It was available OTC in the US until 1970. My mother rubbed it on her babies' gums when they were teething.

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

One of my grandmother's old favorites, for those times when her enthusiasm for enemas produced overly generous results....

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I read somewhere that women in the olden days used to drink cough syrup to get their share of alcohol (because it was un-ladylike for them to purchase alcohol or go to pubs). Now I understand why!

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Specializes in critical care, ER,ICU, CVSURG, CCU.
BrandonLPN said:
Am I reading that right in that each ounce contained 125 mg of morphine?!

well brandon, again some help from us vintage nurses,,,,,,the amount is grains (gr.)

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Specializes in PICU, NICU, L&D, Public Health, Hospice.

I also am wondering about the chloroform...really?...what was that for, sleep?

As if the alcohol and morphine weren't enough.

Our grandparents knew how to treat a cold, eh?

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.

Suppresses cough AND respirations!!

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