What is medicinal compound? it from a song but what is it?

Answer 1

Lilly the pink is actually more a drug related song, The Lilly refered to is the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, that used to make "two tone pinks". This was the "medicinal compound" .The capsule was meant to cure all depression in mankind without side effect, hence the lyric

Lily the Pink (the pink, the pink)
The saviour of..... the human ra-a-a-ce.
For she invented
medicinal compound
most efficacious
in every case.

.I think it was some kind of methyl amphetamine base and was very popular recreationally with those in the Mod culture. Nice one Scaffold :-)

Answer 2

Medicinal Compound Song

Answer 3

Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was a patent medicine from the 1890's. It was actually a strong natural laxative made of things like senna, cascara etc. In those days people still thought that a good "purge" every once in awhile was good for what ailed you. Basically you spent all day with the trots.

Answer 4

Grog!

I gusee you are talking about the song "Lilly the Pink".

It is a drinking song extolling the vertues of the inventor of grog, however none of the problems are mentioned.

What problems? Drunkeness, family breakup, health problems, financial hardship etc. Not so "medicinal" after all!

Answer 5

We'll Drink (a drink, a drink)
To Lily the Pink (the pink, the pink)
The saviour of..... the human ra-a-a-ce.
For she invented
medicinal compound
most efficacious
in every way.

"Lily the Pink" by Scaffold
It's a nonsense drinking song

Answer 6

a medicinal compound is anything made and blended for the purposes of medically curing you, such as asprin. and all other medicines.

Answer 7

Jeepers am I getting old! I thaught it really had something to do with Medicine!

Answer 8

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