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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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| 1161442 | 2010-12-14 17:48:00 | 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. For goodness sake Richard, nobody is that old. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1161443 | 2010-12-14 19:19:00 | For goodness sake Richard, nobody is that old. I am Cic, I am. :( |
Richard (739) | ||
| 1161444 | 2010-12-14 20:23:00 | I am Cic, I am. :( You should change your name to Methuselah. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1161445 | 2010-12-14 20:25:00 | "I have lost four toes in the mountain snows, And foot by a falling tree, A hand and a jaw to a circular saw, And an eye in the Tasman Sea, But I never get ill from a cold or a chill, Thanks to Woods' Great Peppermint Cure" . (Buckley's Canadiol Mixture tasted better though.) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1161446 | 2010-12-14 20:27:00 | You should change your name to Methuselah. I thought he changed it FROM Methuselah? (Quite a while ago.) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1161447 | 2010-12-14 21:40:00 | "I have lost four toes in the mountain snows, And foot by a falling tree, A hand and a jaw to a circular saw, And an eye in the Tasman Sea, But I never get ill from a cold or a chill, Thanks to Woods' Great Peppermint Cure" . (Buckley's Canadiol Mixture tasted better though . ) Must try that cure, seems to take your mind off things . No, no I don't think he was ever Methuselah? |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1161448 | 2010-12-14 22:30:00 | The day the Rawleighs man arrived was a day of horror, because it meant the Lanes Emulsion doses would resume. I remember hiding under the table to avoid the dreaded dose. We used both kinds of Maltexo - plain and orange flavoured - as a 'tonic'. I didn't see the point of messing up the lovely malty flavour with orange... Someone mentioned hot stuff to use as a poultice to draw out poisons - I got a poisoned hand from barbed wire, and my father took me to my uncle who heated some horrible stuff in a saucepan on the range - I think the poultice material was called antiphergestine, or something like that. Uncle told me it was going to hurt, because it had to go on hot. He held my hand in a vice like grip so I couldn't pull away, slapped on a generous slab and covered it with a bandage. It hurt like buggery. :crying The following day the bandage came off, and there was all this gunk on the bandage that had come out of my hand. No poison left. Just a scald... Gee thanks Uncle - I think. |
John H (8) | ||
| 1161449 | 2010-12-14 22:34:00 | Hmmm, maybe it was called Antiphlogistine. Apparently it is kaoline based, and is used on horses as well as defenceless children. | John H (8) | ||
| 1161450 | 2010-12-14 23:17:00 | Yes there was a bad storm and some Mulberries were lost. No biggy the Germans still came second. Too true, mind you I think those ones that broke loose might be the ones that survived, certainly big when you swim out to them |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1161451 | 2010-12-14 23:33:00 | I believe the main ingredients for Mum's patent poultices was bread and Epsom Salts as a paste, steamed into near incandescence and applied to a writhing infant. It worked I guess, but I used to wonder if a neglected stone bruise was as bad as the treatment. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
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