Di.Poppitt
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Scotts Emulsion - ugh, it was like drinking chalk. What did that cure?
Still have my original jar from the 60sThis is a good old one (over 100 years) that one of my uncle's used to swear by...
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This is a good old one (over 100 years) that one of my uncle's used to swear by...
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I had it in hot water for colic. They are not allowed to call it that now but I heard you can still get it.Does anyone remember having indian brandee? I think it was for indigestion, but I my be wrong.
They do another scent of it now in a blue tin and an extra strong one, I tried it for sinus and migraines. It didn't work but I ponged.i use it...it pen and inks a bit but its quite good
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I can't send you a PM maybe because you are a guest. I wonder if you can send me one? I am interested that you lived in Ashted Row where one of my birth relatives lived.In our Kitchen in Ashted Row we had a round chocolate tin full of all our Medicines.
Looking back, there always seemed to be a round tin of Germolene, once you prised the lid off you invariably found it was just a thin ring of ointment that had semi crusted around the edge....oh, and it usually had an unidentifiable piece of something in it.
Half a bottle of Calamine lotion...that was another one, especially with hardened runs of the stuff on the outside of the bottle..
Mom dabbed that on us for Heat lumps..it was only years later I knew themto be bedbug bites.
Blackjack, Moms mainstay..good for anything from Boils and Splinters toopen Heart surgery.
A folded square of cheap plasters..you cut what you needed off to size,
They lasted about 3 seconds and had the sticking power of Teflon.
Medicines..loads of them..like most folk we never threw them out just because we'd got better..
Among those beauties you could always find a ribbed bottle of white medicine with a perished cork in it...never did find out what the medicine was though.
A old razor blade..Dad used one for cutting off bunions, hard skin and slicing boils.
Fullers Earth..Why? I dont even know what it is..
Cough medicine, brown thick and sticky..I think it stopped us coughing by glueing the insides of our throat together
Witch Hazel for red eyes although usually Mom tipped wet tea leaves into a bit of damp cloth..by the 'eck..the flavour floods out.
A much used Nit comb..usually in Brown or black
And some nameless purple lotion...
No one ever seemed to fill our tin up back then yet it never seemed to empty.
I know something though..you never found Aspirin or allergy stuff.. A headache you got on with with it and think back..who did you know with an allergy?