Victory V
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The Victory V is a brand of English cough lozenges. It was originally manufactured in Nelson, Lancashire. They were devised by Thomas Fryer and Edward Smith MD in the mid-1800s and were initially made by hand to ensure that each sweet contained the correct amount of therapeutic ingredients; ether, liquorice and chloroform. They are—or were—very much an acquired taste! A modern version of the Victory V is available in specialist shops and online, but these are a pale modern imitation, no longer containing chloroform. Today they are manufactured by Ernest Jackson & Co Ltd in Devon.
