[Margaret Pilkington]

Virol was in a shaped Jar, but slightly taller and less rounded that the Bovril shape.
Jen....do you mean to tell me that you were not coaxed, cajoled and threatened with Cod Liver Oil in some guise or other?
If that is the case, I am going to report my ma for child abuse.

And I remember Andrews liver salts too.
My dad once sent me to the shop for Bile Beans......he was feeling what in those days was called 'liverish'.......you could either buy them in a sort of tube, or you could buy them six for a penny(or it might have been five......I forget now......it was a long time ago).....he gave me tuppence.
I was given the Bile Beans in a twist of paper. On the way home curiousity got the better of me. I opened the twist of paper and popped one of the little sugar coated tablets into my mouth and let it melt.......once the sugar coating was sucked off the pill tasted vile.
When I got home I handed the paper twist over to my dad, who counted out the little pills and declared that I had been 'done'.......got one less pill that I had paid for, and sent me back to the shop with the twist of paper with the pills in.

I couldn't hardly admit that I had tried one of those Vile Beans(that was what they were dubbed after I had tasted them) and spat it out because it was horrible.

Indian Brandee...that was another one of those old remedies...it tasted nothing at all like Brandy...was used for bad belly ache.
I feigned belly ache a few times to try and get a spoonful, but was always given syrup of figs if I claimed to have belly ache.