Vallejo Flat Yellow

[Raider4]

Or a sugar lump!

[FierceKitty]

May be right. My pharmacology at that age was limited.

[Heedless Horseman]

Aah...the old days when chemists were chemists! 'Cough Mixture' at first tasted bad but became strangely addictive...wish I had a big bottle now...probably at least 2 banned substances...but it certainly seemed to work! Imphepecachuana wine...think it was for 'bad guts' (can't be bothered to even TRY to spell correctly!  ). Pink Lint...for stings/burns etc...which DID work...you can't get it now ! The branded crud in 'Chemists' now, might not kill you...but you still feel like s**t!   
Incidentally...old 'farming' pick you up for cold, wet workers was a stock pot with aniseed, liquorice and maybe 'some' brandy added as circumstance required...warm 'em up and get 'em out again! lol! 
In my own days...of alcoholic experimentation...a good 'warmer' was a 'Percy Special'...Cherrry Brandy and Whisky.  And...for 'the Runs'...'Pink Gin'...a good slop of Angosturas Bitters swilled around a large glass, (then, in theory, chucked out...it's supposedly poisonous, but if you've got the runs, you do not care!).  Gin...more Gin...and if you are Navy, water...I was a wus, so lemonade! Rather nice...so used to line some up in the old, 'Last Orders' days...just in case! 

[FierceKitty]

I dropped and broke a bottle of Angostura bitters once; sad waste, but I just stood there breathing heavily for about ten minutes...divine scent.

[Wulf]

I thought it was always deliberately made to taste foul so that people - especially kids - would not want to take more of it than they were supposed to?

There's quite a gap between "I don't like that" and 'BLEEEEECHHHHH!!!'

[Wulf]

And the reality...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Pinkham

[Fenton]

When I was younger and I sprained my ankle or my wrist my mum used to wrap bandages soaked lead  spirit

My wife was asking me why I was sniffing my paints the other night. Couldnt really give a an answer that didnt sound silly