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Vocalzone Throat Pastilles and Boots
We have been contacted by a lot of customers saying that they can no longer get Vocalzone in Boots.
It is true that we have taken the decision to stop supplying Boots with Vocalzone. As a small independent company we decided to support companies like us rather than "supermarket" type operations.
The good news is that Vocalzone is still available through your local independent chemist. We have launched this website so that you can buy direct from us if you are struggling to find it locally. Vocalzone Throat Pastilles will also shortly be available through music stores and health food shops.
Vocalzone Throat Pastilles
Vocalzone Throat Pastilles were created in the early years of the 20th Century by Mr William Lloyd F.R.C.S. who was an honorary aurist and Laryngologist to the Music Hall Benevolent Home. He was born in Carmarthen in South Wales in 1874 and educated at the University college of Wales and the London Hospital. He qualified L.S.A. in 1898 and took the Scottish Triple qualification a year later. He was a house surgeon at the London Throat Hospital and senior clinical assistant at the Ear Nose and Throat Department of the London Hospital. Later he was on the staff of the Kensington and Fulham General Hospital and built up a large practice amongst stage and music hall artists.
Obituary - William Lloyd - British Medical Journal - 26 June 1948
Dr R Tudor Edwards writes:
The passing of Mr William Lloyd last week (11th June 1948) at the age of 73 at Harrow-On-The-Hill bought to it's close a most interesting and dynamic life. His parents were farmers in Carmarthenshire. He was an enthusiastic Welshmen, and recently remembered his old school in Carmarthen by endowing it with two annual scholarships of £50 each to be competed for by Welsh Speaking boys. In granting these scholarships he also presented to the school a set of original photographs of Captain Scott Antarctic Expedition. These were by Mr Herbert Ponting, official photographer to the expedition.
Mr Lloyd was kind by nature, an individualist, forceful and a very hard worker. He led a tumultuous life, and like his old patient David Lloyd George, bought all his troubles on his own head. An example of this may be seen in that while he took the FRCS he never registered it because he objected to paying the registration fee - on principle. He lived in 58 Brook Street, Grosvenor Square from 1906 until it was blitzed in 1940. During those years he was consulted by most of the leading singers, politicians and musical artists. Their gratitude is demonstrated in hundreds of letters and tokens. A large photograph of Caruso, who was his patient on and off for 15 years, bears the message, “To William Lloyd, with the most profound expression of sympathy and friendship - Enrico Caruso".
He was a keen sportsman and played rugby for the London Hospital, reserve for Wales, and was a member of the National Sporting Club for forty years. During the 1914 - 1918 war he organized a matinee at the Alhambra (now the Odeon Leicester Square) for London Welsh troops which raised £8,000. He travelled the world over and was a great lover of nature, but was never happier than when talking of his native Wales.
