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cough mixture

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noun

  1. any medicine that relieves coughing

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A basin of gruel, or a glass of cough mixture?

From John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 by Frith, William Powell

With vinegar, squills, or garlic, it forms a good cough mixture.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George

I've called about the cough mixture I bought.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

I gave Algie that cough mixture same as you said, and Malcolm he kept coughing fit to tear his throat to pieces.

From Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale by Smith, Harriet L.

Perhaps it is that McCarthy has labelled the cough mixture as the eye-wash, or sent an empty pillbox with an exhortation to take one every four hours.

From The Stark Munro Letters by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir