It was Virol, not a medicine but a vitamin preparation, malt extract I think. It came in jars & our mums gave us a spoonful in a morning to build us up. As I remember it tasted quite nice but it was a very thick sticky consistency & stuck all around your mouth. Not available any more.
Robinia.....I was a thin "pewny" insignificant kid (now I am just an insignificant adult;-)) and the people who brought me up fed me with Virol, Radio Malt and worm cakes, which were bloody awful and there was no evidence that I even had worms....LOL
Yes Sqad I had all of those..except the worm cakes (!)...unless they were heavily disguised? We survived with only a handful of remedies, a jar of Vicks, a tin of zam-buk and some little liver pills was about all you needed...
We also has neat Iodine which my granddad kept in a bottle and he used the bottle stopper to apply the neat Iodine...I can still hear my screams:-)
We also had Andrews Liver Salts which was a powder, but effervesced when added to water.....grandma said that I had to drink it whilst it was effervescing otherwise it didn't work.....LOL
Ooooops ...just remembered "bread poultices" which had to be applied at temperatures no lower than 100deg C......LOL Thees were applied to boils to "draw them"