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Kandor said:
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?
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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.
Nico
 
Ellimans Embrication. Then Deep Heat. And Permagum of Potash in a tin for smelly feet. That was in the top drawer of the sideboard.. We had a Vick Stick that was dad's I think we all used it! It was in little vase on the fireplace with hairpins, spills paperclips anything. Oil of juniper berry to keep insects at bay, made me wretch and gave me a headache. I think it should have been diluted and nan put a big blob on my teeshirt, neat. She had these horrible insipid lozengers I can't remember what for but they were pastel shades with a powdery taste. Same size as Refreshers. And Rinstead Pastilles. Junior Disprin you diluted. Anadin in a plastic flat box you tapped to shake them out that were impossible to get out. My mate's Dublin mum gave my mum a miniature vodka bottle with holy water in. To keep in her handbag. Mum had a recurring sty. She bathed it in it. She told his mum I think the vodka might do me more good.
 
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Nico,

Kandor can generally be found on FaceBook, though it's two or three years since I last chatted to him.

Maurice :cool:
 
Kaolin and morphine for upset stomachs
i was given a puppy. it kept doing a woops. so i took it to the vet. he said it has distemper put it to sleep. i said no. and left.i took it to the PDSA.they had a look and said it has a upset stomach. give her a drop of this every 4 hrs. i did. we were together for 18 years
 
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