Vicks
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Vicks is a line of over-the-counter medications owned by the US company Procter & Gamble. Vicks manufactures NyQuil and its sister medication, DayQuil.
[edit] VapoRub
The brand is most widely known for the signature "VapoRub" ointment, a mentholated topical creme intended to assist with minor medical conditions that temporarily impair breathing, including the common cold. It is applied to the chest, often immediately before sleeping, or inhaled by melting it in very hot water. The Vicks brand also produces the well-known NyQuil and DayQuil, Formula 44 cough medicines, Vicks brand cough drops, and a number of inhaled breathing treatments.
Vicks is also popular among ecstasy users, who generally rub the cream underneath the eyes.
VapoRub was created in the 1880s by Lunsford Richardson, a Selma, North Carolina pharmacist, as a salve for treating colds and pneumonia. Richardson later moved to Greensboro, North Carolina and began marketing it as Vicks VapoRub, named in honor of his brother-in-law, Dr. Joshua Vick, a Selma physician. In 1948, Edward Mabry became president of Vicks, then known as the Vicks Chemical Company. In 1985 it was sold to Procter & Gamble.
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