How Cough Syrup Preceded Jello
There’s nothing unusual about the cough. There’s dry cough, whopping cough, wet cough. You have coughing fits, and you fake a cough to save you from an unpleasant situation, or you throw dagger looks at someone who coughs to your face with wild abandon. But really, there seems to be a lot more you many not recognize about the cough.
Cough is common chiefly because it circulates fast. Faster than an average person is how fast cough travels. Imagine, cough can travel at 60 miles an hour!
Here’s one amusing information about the cough: snail slime can cure it! Being commercialized in Chile as a remedy for cough is snail sludge. The proprietor of the snail farm says that antibiotics are contained in these slimey secretions. Thus, in Chile, at least, there’s a cough remedy from snail gunk, in strawberry and avocado flavors.
But long before the snail and its goop, over-the-counter and prescription cough syrup formulations were derived from addicting substances… or didn’t you know? Yes, drugs were handed freely then, even to minors! Opiates and heroine were the root of cough syrup in the 1800s!
Seemingly intertwined were the fates of cough syrup and jello. Having decided to branch out into something else, Pearl B. Wait closed his cough syrup manufacturing plant. Next, he presented the world with Jello in fruity flavors, an improvement of the nasty-tasting gelatin.
Another not-so-known trivia about the ordinary cough is that it actually induced… murder?! Yes, in 1799, Napoleon was mulling whether to liberate his 1,200 Turkish prisoners or not. But as he was coughing, he exclaimed “Ma sacr toux!” meaning “My darned cough!” But his soldiers misheard, and thought he said, “Massacrez tous!” meaning, “Kill them all!” And that they did…
Does coughing bring on hearing disability, too?
If you have persistent problems with cough get the best treatment from the expert. Sleep apnea can be cured once and for all, too.