Definition of "linctus" [linctus]

• Any syrupy medication; especially a remedy for coughs (noun)

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• "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."
• "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."
• "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."