[Margaret Pilkington]

Well, I am not sure whether they were the same thing...the brown one wasn't sweet, but it was heavily mentholated, the red one was very sweet, very sticky(I once sneezed when I had just had a big spoonful of this stuff and in stuck my mum's hair down very nicel-far better than amami)...the cherry stuff did not taste the same as the brown stuff...but they could have had the same ingredients in different quantities I suppose.
Neither was pleasant......another trick for coughs was being held over the fumes of a tar boiler...not much good in the winter though....no roads being tarred then.
Ah, the old remedies.