Pills for all ills - Cough Pastille tin by Wigglesworth Ltd., Westhoughton, Lancashire, c1960
One of the many old over the counter medicines you used to get and this must have been in the family for a good few years. It boasts of an active ingredient, Cetylpyridinium chloride, that is still in use mostly I gather in mouth washes. Usually a lot of the constituents of these sorts of things are now long on the banned list - I see this has chloroform in as did Victory V lozenges back in the day.
J W Wigglesworth, founded in Bolton and whose main factory was in nearby Westhoughton, was one of a number of patent medicine producers in Lancashire at the time. I do recall that they used the advertising strapline "Pills for all ills". This tin survives as, like many others, it was reused for pins by my grandma Clegg.
Pills for all ills - Cough Pastille tin by Wigglesworth Ltd., Westhoughton, Lancashire, c1960
One of the many old over the counter medicines you used to get and this must have been in the family for a good few years. It boasts of an active ingredient, Cetylpyridinium chloride, that is still in use mostly I gather in mouth washes. Usually a lot of the constituents of these sorts of things are now long on the banned list - I see this has chloroform in as did Victory V lozenges back in the day.
J W Wigglesworth, founded in Bolton and whose main factory was in nearby Westhoughton, was one of a number of patent medicine producers in Lancashire at the time. I do recall that they used the advertising strapline "Pills for all ills". This tin survives as, like many others, it was reused for pins by my grandma Clegg.