liverpool annie Posted 19 December , 2008 Share Posted 19 December , 2008 I was reading that the comfort in World War One was Dr Collis Brown's cough medicine ........ it contained Codeine Morphine and Cocaine ..... and that cough medicine got the soldiers through the horrors of the trenches ! Has anybody else heard that .... or is that common knowledge that I just didn't hear yet ?? Annie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Clay Posted 19 December , 2008 Share Posted 19 December , 2008 Annie Discussed recently - see http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/i...112380&st=0 Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liverpool annie Posted 19 December , 2008 Author Share Posted 19 December , 2008 Thanks Jim .... it didn't show up when I did a search ! I'll go and read ! Annie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillchadwick Posted 19 December , 2008 Share Posted 19 December , 2008 Collis Brown's chlorodyne was 'sworn by'!!! in Liverpool when I was a child Gill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce Posted 19 December , 2008 Share Posted 19 December , 2008 I well remember receiving doses of Collis Browns as a child.....it was great stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daggers Posted 19 December , 2008 Share Posted 19 December , 2008 Was it not a 'settler' rather than a cough mixture? Bring it back please, for the present v...ing plague. D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelab Posted 19 December , 2008 Share Posted 19 December , 2008 Back in the 1960s, my husband would not go on a foreign holiday without it! He maintained that it settled his stomach - which to his annoyance was easily deranged by foreign food. Maybe it was a habit that he acquired from his slightly hypochondriac dad, who had served with the ASC in WWI. Later the stuff was withdrawn from over-the-counter sale. Angela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liverpool annie Posted 19 December , 2008 Author Share Posted 19 December , 2008 What I'd really like to know is .... were the soldiers in WW1 using drugs etc to get them through the horrors ? ..... I'm asking because so many of my soldiers had a really hard time when they came home .... and more than a few were alcoholics ... could the medicine have been part of the cause ?? Annie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centurion Posted 19 December , 2008 Share Posted 19 December , 2008 Collis Brown's chlorodyne was 'sworn by'!!! in Liverpool when I was a child Gill Was there any connection with the 'medicinal compound' from 'Lily the Pink'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Clay Posted 19 December , 2008 Share Posted 19 December , 2008 Nah, she invented it. Most efficacious it was, though, in practically every case. So I'm told. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted 19 December , 2008 Share Posted 19 December , 2008 Grantham Drill Hall (erected 1911 and in use as an Auxiliary Military Hospital between 19th November 1914 and 28 February 1919) was the scene of one of The Scaffold's memorable gigs. Didn't you just need to know that? Annie, I'll ask an analytical chemist whom I know very well and who is clued up on the composition of old medicines. Gwyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 25 April , 2020 Share Posted 25 April , 2020 (edited) On 19/12/2008 at 23:22, liverpool annie said: What I'd really like to know is .... were the soldiers in WW1 using drugs etc to get them through the horrors ? I don't think that what today we call "hard drugs" were widely available without a medical prescription, but there was certainly a market for them among the troops. One of the three British officers executed in WW1 was thought to have been involved in it, although he was actually executed for murder, as he shot one of the military policemen who arrested him. Rum was also issued to the troops (and to sailors aboard ship) before action or in cold weather. Although its predecessor, morphine, had been known since classical times, heroin was developed in the 1890s by the German firm of Bayer, who also developed aspirin at around the same time. It was then thought that aspirin was the more dangerous drug of the two. Ron Edited 25 April , 2020 by Ron Clifton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidbohl Posted 25 April , 2020 Share Posted 25 April , 2020 The newspapers pick up a cholera remedy in 1854, Browne with a "e". Dr. Collis Browne's Cholera Remedy. MBARRON, CHEMIST, 37, Winchoomb begs to state that, owing to the many atm and urgent entreaties lank ... Published: Wednesday 23 August 1854 Newspaper: Cheltenham Examiner County: Gloucestershire, England A bit later in 1886 the cough cure appears ALL RoUND reductions in DRUGS, PATENT MEDICINES, and GROCERIES are made. DR. BROWN'S COUGH CURE, liy for )'.'•'d.. M for 2/3 COD Llv'Li; OIL (almost tasteie. s;, extra size bottles, 16 for 9d.. pint 3 6 and qu ... Published: Saturday 16 October 1886 Newspaper: Leeds Times Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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