Well after all it is the ethanol which is the active ingredient, surely,
rather than the "drug".
Did not they used to give colicky babies that old-fashioned surfactant
formula (gin and sugar) ?
JW
Dr Jon Wilcox
Glenfield Medical Centre,
452 Glenfield Road,
Auckland 1310, New Zealand
Phone or Fax +649-444-7656
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-----Original Message-----
From: Katie Law <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, December 13, 1998 11:37
Subject: Re: Cough linctus
> Iain L M Hotchkies <[log in to unmask]> writes
>
>> There are four basic types of cough medicine, each of which works
in a
>>different way.
>
>big snip of useful patient information
>
>
>In the end ...
> 1 puff of daughter's salbutamol, 2 paracetamol and a glass of
>sherry (nearest thing to cough linctus in my cupboards) ...
>--
>Katie
>
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