It'll pass of course, these things always do, and in the meantime I can get by on aspirin, linctus and the occasional hot toddy.
Traces of cough linctus suggest that he was being looked after.
To Spilsby this morning, to fetch linctus, lemons and honey for Graham, who has now developed a full-scale summer cough.
In 1993 I was given a liver function test and later told by the consultant that if I continued with my addiction to the cough linctus, I would definitely die within the next 12 months.
There comes a time, however, when you simply can't face another pill, potion or linctus without throwing up.
Then I started drinking heavily, smoking cannabis, drinking Temaza linctus which made me go a bit crazy.
When these thin, frazzled, frequent flyers contract the lurgy or lethargy, they don't stock up on Lemsip, linctus or Boots multivitamins like the rest of us.
This morning I've struggled back in to work armed with a bottle of linctus and a large box of tissues, man-size for man-flu!
If I list just five of the 31 possible side effects of Solaraze such as ulcers, dermatitis, hair loss and vomiting, then surely a little bottle of linctus is very small beer.
Another method described in an ancient text is sugar-candy taken with rice-wash in the form of a linctus to produce sterility in a woman without lessening her passion.
I'm feeding him freshly-squeezed lemon and honey topped up with boiling water, paracetemol, and pholcodine linctus.
I shall attack this with a suitable linctus and hot rum'n'lemon toddies when I've been out shopping tomorrow and after my house viewers have been in the mid-afternoon.
Pholcodine linctus suppresses dry coughs and simple linctus soothes the throat or tickly cough without any side effects.
I was offered instead a bottle of children's linctus.
He asked for a list of drugs, but Mrs Patel could only provide codeine linctus, which can be used by heroin addicts.
Origin
Late 17th century: from Latin, from lingere 'to lick'.
This word for a cough mixture is an adoption of a Latin word which comes from lingere ‘to lick’. It is literally a mixture meant to be lapped up by the tongue.