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| Thread ID: 114696 | 2010-12-13 20:37:00 | Happy Daze: Interesting Medications From The Past. | Billy T (70) | PC World Chat |
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| 1161422 | 2010-12-14 01:10:00 | Strychnine Was used extensively as a treatment in the 19th century in hospitals. | pctek (84) | ||
| 1161423 | 2010-12-14 01:24:00 | My Grandmother in England (they lived in the wops) Wop Wops.? :D |
BobM (1138) | ||
| 1161424 | 2010-12-14 01:35:00 | My Grandmother in England was prescribed Guinness as an Iron supplement when she was expecting my Mum. Apparently her Dr gave her the option of Iron tablets or a half pint of stout to be taken once daily she chose the stout as more readily available (they lived in the wops) I can remember my Mum drinking Mackeson Milk Stout (beeradvocate.com) for the same reason and we didn't live in the wops! As for creosote (en.wikipedia.org)we painted the fences with it. |
tuiruru (12277) | ||
| 1161425 | 2010-12-14 01:55:00 | Mackeson Milk Stout has a different taste to normal Guinness type stout. Incidentally Mackeson brewery the one where your Mums stout would have been brewed was in Hythe Kent. My family is from all around that area mainly out on Romney marsh. Mackesons brewery was opposite the Red Lion pub. See here (maps.google.co.nz) where the carpark is beneath Bartholomew Street was the brewery, when I was young you could see the old tunnels from the brewery going into the hillside there | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1161426 | 2010-12-14 01:58:00 | And of course, when Coca-Cola was launched, the two key ingredients were cocaine (benzoylmethyl ecgonine) and caffeine. You forgot one important ingredient. Cola nut. Mind you, it didn't sell well as a brain tonic when it was released. |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 1161427 | 2010-12-14 02:15:00 | One of the best applications for cuts and grazes was Mercurochrome an antiseptic application which I still have about 100 odd mls of and still use. It was taken off the market back in the 1960s because of its mercury content. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1161428 | 2010-12-14 02:57:00 | tut, I don't recollect orange flavoured Maltexo. Doesn't sound that good. But I well remember Mercurochrome Trev. My mother swore by it for all cuts and grazes, and it didn't sting as much as Iodine. Interesting colours too depending on where the light was from. I did not know that was why is was no longer available. Who remembers Zambuk ointment, and mentholatum ointment? I think they cured more through the cool effect on the skin, and the mint smell than anything else. Then there was Friar's Balsam which was inhaled to cure a cold (didn't work) and poultices on stone bruises and other infections. All seem so primitive now. |
Richard (739) | ||
| 1161429 | 2010-12-14 03:43:00 | And then there was someones Pink Pills for Pale people as well as Mackenzies menthoids that turned your pee bright green. Ahh such were the days eh. |
tut (12033) | ||
| 1161430 | 2010-12-14 03:55:00 | Mum swore by whiskey and honey if a child had a cold/cough and couldn't sleep I dunno how it worked, but our daughter fell asleep quickly everytime it was adminstered :D |
Myth (110) | ||
| 1161431 | 2010-12-14 06:09:00 | Mackeson Milk Stout has a different taste to normal Guinness type stout. Incidentally Mackeson brewery the one where your Mums stout would have been brewed was in Hythe Kent. My family is from all around that area mainly out on Romney marsh. Mackesons brewery was opposite the Red Lion pub. See here (maps.google.co.nz) where the carpark is beneath Bartholomew Street was the brewery, when I was young you could see the old tunnels from the brewery going into the hillside there Small world - me mum lives in Folkestone now, we used to drive across Romney Marsh on the way to Camber Sands, rides on the Romney, Hythe, Dymchurch railway, jumping the beach groynes at St Mary's bay......... :p |
tuiruru (12277) | ||
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