To treat my cough, I wanted the pink linctus with the double action: it both soothes your throat AND brings back happy memories of a time when you were loved. ❋ Amuchmoreexotic (2008)
A fourth part of a pound of cleaned beans, and twelve shoots of madder having been triturated, are to be mixed together and boiled, and given as a linctus with some fatty substance. ❋ Unknown (2007)
In fever attended with singultus, give asafoetida, oxymel, and carrot, triturated together, in a draught; or galbanum in honey, and cumin in a linctus, or the juice of ptisan. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Such a person cannot escape, unless critical sweats and gentle sleep supervene, and thick and acrid urine be passed, or the disease terminate in an abscess: give pine-fruit and myrrh in a linctus, and further give a very little oxymel to drink; but if they are very thirsty, some barley-water. ❋ Unknown (2007)
L-onie recognised some road signs and advertising posters for aperitifs, for wax polish and cough linctus, but it was not a world she knew. ❋ Mosse, Kate (2007)
A linctus for pneumonia: Galbanum and pine-fruit in Attic honey; and southernwood in oxymel; make a decoction of pepper and black hellebore, and give it in cases of pleurisy attended with violent pain at the commencement. ❋ Unknown (2007)
But I am going to do it: I will get some codeine linctus to suppress my cough. ❋ Rachel (2006)
He was a short, fat, squint-eyed, florid-faced, devious drone whose profession was administering linctus to racehorses: the kind of disaster only the Greens could rely on. ❋ Davis, Lindsey (1998)
"Was he?" said Cadfael abstractedly, pounding herbs in a mortar for a linctus. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 (1992)
I'll send your lord some pastilles for his throat, and a linctus to take every three hours. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 (1992)
"I trust," said Cadfael, giving the linctus bottle an experimental shake to ensure the contents should be well mixed, "I trust that was not his only reason for entering Ramsey." ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 (1992)
A bottle of cough linctus smashed and spattered its yellow viscous contents over a large box of cotton wool and over Rhoda's shoes. ❋ Gill, B. M. (1991)
The pharmacist had gone down the corridor to speak to one of the nurses while she had waited for her cough linctus. ❋ Gill, B. M. (1991)
I'll give you a bottle of linctus; keep on with the antibiotics. ❋ Neels, Betty (1984)
The linctus you left boiling … I did watch it most carefully, I'm sure I took it from the brazier when it was just the right thickness, and I stirred it as you told me. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913- (1981)
These medicines are widely available in the form of cough syrup, also known as linctus. ❋ Unknown (2010)
