A company called Willards was the first to market gripe water commercially. It b…

A company called Willards was the first to market gripe water commercially. It became popular with the British middle classes … It was used for wind, lack of wind, constipation, diarrhoea, colic, hiccups, stomach upsets, coughing,… fever. The perfect solution was too good to be true… The gripe water we all knew and loved contained between 3.6 per cent and 8 per cent alcohol, In 1982, the FDA banned it from public consumption, and soon other countries did too Rory Egan PUBLISHED11/06/2006

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