Black-Draught

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Health care in 19th century Richmond  -  ‎Jul 7, 2009‎
Black Draught and Lydia Pinkham's were two such medicines, which still existed in my day. Unknown to me were Dr. Sloan's Kidney Pills and Dr. Williams' Richmond Register

Guinness: Heady experience  -  ‎Feb 25, 2009‎
Guinness has been leaving its creamy imprint on the upper lips of dedicated imbibers for 250 years. Alice Lascelles looks at the science surrounding the Telegraph.co.uk

John Agnew: They can pry VapoRub from my cold, dead hand  -  Jan 22, 2009
Marty is unlikely to know about Father John's Medicine, Black-Draught, Lydia E. Pinkham's Herb Medicine, Wine of Cardui, Carter's Little Liver Pills (the The News-Press,

Mary Belk: Home remedies can be the right prescription  -  Jan 14, 2009
I missed out on cleansers such as castor oil and Black Draught. And I was never given a dose of cod liver oil or a mess of dandelion greens to build up my Opelika Auburn News,

Black and Decker’s digital draught-finder debuts online  -  Dec 8, 2008
If like us your house has more draughts than the local Weatherspoons, you’re in luck. Black and Decker just debuted its Thermal Leak Detector, ElectricPig.tv,

'The Last Dime'  -  Dec 7, 2008
I sucked in scent upon scent, stroked the rough-smooth skin of an orange and thanked God there was no castor oil or black draught — the medicines Mother and Ventura County Star,

Old brands in new bottles  -  Oct 14, 2008
Its first product was an herbal laxative called Thedford's Black Draught, which it bought from AQ Simmons, a doctor in Georgia. Sify,

Richard Burton on Sanaag – At the Origins of the British Anti ...  -  Jul 17, 2008
Lieutenant Speke complains of the scarcity and the quality of the water, "which resembles the mixture commonly known as black draught. American Chronicle,

Smiley Anders for May 5, 2008  -  May 4, 2008
...know for sure that people ARE purged — every spring — with castor oil, Black Draught and other awful things that would ‘clean us out after the winter.’ 2TheAdvocate,

Mysterious thing called a caucus  -  Feb 16, 2008
But I think it’sa secret enclave kind of thing that involves eye of newt, bat wing and maybe even gunpowder stirred into syrup of black draught. Moultrie Observer,

MICHAEL E. PALMER: Indians used holly leaves for medicinal ‘black tea’  -  Jan 19, 2008
When I was a child, my grandmother was a fan of the Black Draught elixir. Its main ingredients are casanthranal and senna. I distinctly remember her forcing Tuscaloosa News (subscription),

Country Music Hall of Fame Member Porter Wagoner Dies  -  Oct 28, 2007
...into syndicated country music television for the Chattanooga Medicine Company, makers of the popular laxatives and elixirs Cardui and Black Draught. CMT.com,

DON JACOBS: Catching a cold ruins tastebuds  -  Oct 8, 2007
Castor Oil, Black Draught Tea and Grove's Chill Tonic didn't sound appetizing, so I started fantasizing about delectable things to prepare when the Beaumont Enterprise,

Why you should put some things in writing  -  Jun 8, 2007
Macon Telegraph,..."We had few medicines - aspirin, castor oil (I hated it) and Black Draught . . . and if you had a really bad cut on your foot you put kerosene on it.

Jennifer Adkins: Dad shares a few of his surefire parenting fixes  -  Apr 4, 2007
Huntington Herald Dispatch,See, Grandma really did have something like that: a big brown bottle of Black Draught Castor Oil. RUN! One dose, and only God could help you -- but He was

71 Years Ago  -  Apr 7, 2007
Suffolk News-Herald,...and men’s Easter suits for $12.50; Joseph P. Hall Drug Co., offered Black Draught Molasses for 17 cents, and Williams Shaving Cream at 28 cents;

What Did That Building Used to Be? - Bee Dee Stock Medicine Company  -  Dec 17, 2006
The Chattanoogan,Black-Draught, a senna-based laxative, was Chattanooga Medicine’s first product. Many Chattanoogans remember watching Porter Waggoner advertising Cardui,

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