Set of two vintage tins for Mannings & Mackay's Cough Drops.

Set of two vintage tins for Mannings & Mackay's Cough Drops.

• Maker: Mannings & Mackay's - Case Manufacturing Company
• Manufacturing date: 1980s

Description
Set of two extremely decorative vintage tins for Cough Drops (cough drops) from Mannings & Mackay's. The cans are equipped with a hinged lid. The decoration consists of a gold-colored background with details in green, red and yellow. Pictures of two older gentlemen taking a cough certificate.

Marked on the bottom with Container made in England.

Condition
This set of tins is in a good vintage condition with possible traces of use and age-related traces of wear. Photos are part of the description.

Size

• Height: 20.5 cm. - 14.5 cm.
• Length: 10.4 cm.
• Width: 10.4 cm.

A throat lozenge (also known as a cough drop, troche, cachou, pastille or cough sweet) is a small, typically medicated tablet intended to be dissolved slowly in the mouth to temporarily stop coughs, lubricate, and soothe irritated tissues of the throat (usually due to a sore throat), possibly from the common cold or influenza. Cough tablets have taken the name lozenge, based on their original shape, a diamond.

Candies to soothe the throat date back to 1000 BC in Egypt's Twentieth Dynasty, when they were made from honey flavored with citrus, herbs, and spices.[citation needed] In the 19th century, physicians discovered morphine and heroin, which suppress coughing at its source—the brain. Popular formulations of that era included Smith Brothers Cough Drops, first advertised in 1852, and Luden's, created in 1879. Concern over the risk of opioid dependence led to the development of alternative medications.

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