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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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| 1161432 | 2010-12-14 06:15:00 | Bring back the blood sucking leeches! Oh wait. They're called Politicians now are they not? |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1161433 | 2010-12-14 06:34:00 | I just loved Buckleys Canadiol Mixture, ohh that taste of ammonia - nothing quite like it!!! | Bryan (147) | ||
| 1161434 | 2010-12-14 06:38:00 | 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. Doctor William's PP for PP as I recall, and they tasted horrible as well! I can still recall that peculiarly chemical taste 50+ years on. And as I recall it the pink pills turned your pee blue. I reckon that was all they did too! Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1161435 | 2010-12-14 07:01:00 | We also had Carter's Little Liver Pills with were nothing but a fake - they got pulled off the market as snake oil medicines. Another thing we had was Geritol - For Tired Blood. It was a tincture of bovine blood in a pleasant alcohol base that did absolutley nothing too. One thing I remember for coughs was Tincture of Turpentine. Tasted good - but it did nothing for a cold. I have in my medicine cabinet one that I have used as a child, and although I could swear it used to taste better, it is almost palatable now - Creomulsion - or a concoction of creosote and syrup. I like ti 'cause is softens a cough and keeps you from hacking up a lung. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1161436 | 2010-12-14 07:48:00 | 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 My folks live about half way between Hythe and Ashford. I know Folkestone well since My Gran and my brother lived there and I studied there. I know all of Romney marsh well especially Dymchurch. Did you ever swim out to the Mulberry harbour at New Romney? Left over from the war they were towed across for D day to make temporary harbours but these ones broke their tow and ended up where they are |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1161437 | 2010-12-14 07:50:00 | A tea made from Senna pods for constipation and what was in those poultices that were put on red hot to 'draw' out a deep seated prickle that was festering usually in ones foot. Hydrogen peroxide poured over infected cuts. It fizzed and bubbled as it supposedly killed the infections. Did it really do that? I dont know if anyone else did this but we went barefooted all the time, summer and winter. breaking the ice on puddles with bare feet at one exteme and popping blisters on the road tar at the other. Seldom see barefooted kids these days. |
tut (12033) | ||
| 1161438 | 2010-12-14 08:17:00 | I used to use a Rawleighs ointment that was pulled off the market when I was 5 or 6 because it contained something incredibly dangerous. I think it might have been mercury. My Nana used to swear by it - nothing else could clear up my eczema. Hydrogen peroxide is great for cleaning out infected cuts. Sometimes Detol just doesn't cut it. |
Greven (91) | ||
| 1161439 | 2010-12-14 08:43:00 | I used to use a Rawleighs ointment that was pulled off the market when I was 5 or 6 because it contained something incredibly dangerous. I think it might have been mercury.We knew it as 'Man and Beast', but it was the same thing. Mum used to have a tub of the salve for our childhood scrapes and cuts. Obviously used for human and animals, and other uses ... :stare: www.rawleigh.net |
Jen (38) | ||
| 1161440 | 2010-12-14 08:56:00 | My folks live about half way between Hythe and Ashford. I know Folkestone well since My Gran and my brother lived there and I studied there. I know all of Romney marsh well especially Dymchurch. Did you ever swim out to the Mulberry harbour at New Romney? Left over from the war they were towed across for D day to make temporary harbours but these ones broke their tow and ended up where they are Yes there was a bad storm and some Mulberries were lost. No biggy the Germans still came second. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 1161441 | 2010-12-14 08:58:00 | Guts, where's the coke in my cola these days? :devil | The Error Guy (14052) | ||
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