Average physician income ranges from $253,000 in the Northeast to $281,000 in the Northwest. Certain regions of the country may have to pay more to attract doctors, so physician salaries often reflect the level of competition more than the cost of living.
To put this in the modern context, steam pears with rock sugar can help to reduce swollen throat, smooth irritation at throat, reduce cough (especially loud ones), prevent dehydration of respiratory tract, clear phlegm, and reduce fever.
For a chesty cough with phlegm, expectorants can help you 'cough it up' and ease the cough. An expectorant is a medicine that thins mucus so you can cough it up more easily. The ingredients you will typically see in cough expectorant are guaiphenesin, ammonium chloride, squill, sodium citrate and ipecacuanha. These medicines are unlikely to cause side effects for most people.