Godfrey’s Cordial

3rd October 2022

Hello babies! On today’s ep, Emily has an anti Endorse-Horse about a live action remake, and Lisa is riding her horse through your neighborhood and she does not need to explain her actions. On Wiki of the Week, we read the Wikipedia page for “Godfrey’s Cordial,” a patent medicine, containing laudanum (tincture of opium) in […]

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Hello babies!
On today’s ep, Emily has an anti Endorse-Horse about a live action remake, and Lisa is riding her horse through your neighborhood and she does not need to explain her actions. On Wiki of the Week, we read the Wikipedia page for “Godfrey’s Cordial,” a patent medicine, containing laudanum (tincture of opium) in a sweet syrup, which was commonly used as a sedative to quiet infants and children in Victorian England.

Editor’s note: here’s some info about that secret ingredient in Emily’s imported toothpaste
https://medium.com/@ravenstine/the-curious-history-of-novamin-toothpaste-620c6bef8881

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