Throat lozenge
A throat lozenge (it is commonly called a cough drop) is a small pill that slowly breaks in a person's mouth. It breaks because it touches the spit in their mouth and dissolves. When it dissolves, medication inside the lozenge will enter their body. The medication is used for pain relief, stopping coughs, making your mouth wetter, stopping painful throats, or other things. They were first made in 1000 BC during Egypt's 20th Dynasty as candies that stop painful throats. They commonly use the drugs benzocaine, menthol, or the plant oil from eucalyptus trees. They sometimes use dextromethorphan to stop coughs and in the 1800s they used morphine and heroin for the same reason.[1]
Throat Lozenge Media
cough drop
A pocket tin containing small salmiak liquorice pastilles in the traditional diamond shape lozenge. In Europe, salmiak liquorice pastilles are considered a "traditionally-applied medicine to assist expectoration in the airways".
Valda mint eucalyptus gumdrops
Early 20th century "Frog In Your Throat" box, containing lozenges made of cubeb, tolu balsam, liquorice, white horehound and wild cherry extracts
References
- ↑ Panati, Charles (1989). Panati's extraordinary origins of everyday things. Internet Archive. New York : Perennial Library. ISBN 978-0-06-096419-1.
