Regarding the brompton cocktail, a mixture of heroin and cocaine that was used for severe pain in patients with medical diseases (Messages, May 6The Glasco recipe was heroin, cocaine, jinn, peasles and honey. It can be anxiously effective. Several years ago, the late partner, who is facing a patient suffering from painful pain, released a cluttle prescription.
In the middle of the evening surgery, my partner was called for the state of emergency in the local pub. The patient felt a great improvement, and decided to go to a drink, and the brompton mixture in addition to “Hauf AN” has proven (whiskey and ALE), often. He was transferred home and asked him to stick to soft drinks.
Peter Watson
Glasgow
As an assimilation officer in the 1970s, I used to visit the Huddersfield Royal dispensary to authorize the requests to pay the soul regarding the duty of the sposque on the lives used in preparing the brompton cocktails. I doubt a lot if similar visits are made at the present time, but they have made interesting Al -Makus officers.
John Garfworth
Ilkley, West Yorkshire
I was also a trained pharmacist working in a village in the coal field in Yorkshire in the early 1960s when we received a prescription for the brompton cocktail with various strengths of morphine and cocaine, along with whiskey and chloroform water, for a man we knew to be sick in the ring.
His wife presented the prescription a message: “He says that he could have Johnny Walker?” Of course, we complied!
Brian Sandal
Whitastage, Kent
