Now this is a COUGH SYRUP:

[Hestia]

23. My dad was a pharmacist and we always had paregoric around. We would use 1-2 drops

in a small glass water. You had to be really sick (gastro) to take the stuff, because I will never forget how BAD it tasted. O.M.G. It was an actual punishment to use that little bitty amount. Holding your nose wouldn't even work on this stuff.

One bottle would last an entire families life-time, maybe into the grand kids lives. When the FDA pulled it from the market, there ain't nothing that even touches a gastrointestinal flu - nothing. They used to make a buffered milky product that worked wonders.

I remember being really shocked when around age 10 went to the Hall of Industry and the cops had display and paregoric was there.