If you're able to eat, a little dry toast is good or maybe a bowl of cream of wheat. Elva Ruth recommends taking a loaf of bread or crackers and a gallon of orange juice to bed with you because you won't be able to get up and fix anything. You'll need aspirin or a substitute to get the fever down and help the aches. Suck on hard candy or lozenges to keep the throat moist. A little whiskey laced with honey helps a cough.
Camphorated oil is good for rubbing on chests and throats.
Just a smidgen of turpentine will increase effectiveness of the treatment. Such remedies also give evidence to friends and neighbors that you are really, really sick. They can smell you from afar. My grandmother didn't fool with oil and turpentine. Mentholatum was her personal choice for nose and chest.