My Amygdales are Killing Me!

When I need to guess a French translation of a technical word, I usually just say the English word with a French accent and change the ending a bit. That doesn't work with "tonsillitis", tonsille is only used by doctors.

They don't have anything like Betadine gargle or butter-menthols (these don't exist in America either, so I had no reason to expect them). Not every home has aspirin, for the same reason that you can't get iodine gargle, it's gone out of fashion. Apparently they're "not allowed" ready access to aspirin any more because of the side effects. I don't know whether this means a prescription or just behind the counter but it strikes me as weird having just come from America where they really do sell it in bottles like in the movies. At least paracetamol is called that here (unlike the US where it's "acetaminophen").

What they do have is pine sap lollies; yes, pine sap. Well, they do have a medicinal taste. They also have a strange lozenge that is made from Vichy water minerals. I dunno, that name just shocks me whenever I see it.