OMCHamlin
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Any one from that time remember washing up for dinner with Phisohex? That stuff was so bad it got yanked off the market back in the 60's...
Who remembers tincture of merthiolate?
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DoubleAdobe
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Yeah, I remember the monkey blood. Kept you from whining unless you were skinned up pretty bad.
My old Grampa was a firm believer in Campho Phenique (sp?), put it on everything, especially fever blisters aka cold sores. Love the way it smelled.
My old Grampa was a firm believer in Campho Phenique (sp?), put it on everything, especially fever blisters aka cold sores. Love the way it smelled.
model70hunter
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carpriver
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I remember all the red death stuff. Most of the summer and fall I had red fingers knees and elbows. If we had a wound that might be infected we got to soak in salts water and then black salve and a bandage. that salve would soak thru and look gross.
Anyone remember Red Rose Salve, pink and sweet smelling, good for any first aid need.
My dad used tobacco juice and dirt to draw out bee stingers.
Anyone remember Red Rose Salve, pink and sweet smelling, good for any first aid need.
My dad used tobacco juice and dirt to draw out bee stingers.
SweetMK
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I think I remember getting the polio vaccine three times,,,
I am positive at least twice.
The first was a needle,,, after that, thankfully,,, the sugar cube.
It was almost like an annual event,,,
All the kids went to a public Pittsburgh High School,,, (I was about 6,, IIRC)
We lived in the county,, our parents took us to the city for the vaccine.
Could you imagine getting parents to ALL do this on one Saturday,,, today??
Oh, yea,,, My Ma used a LOT of that red stuff,,, the rusty stuff I played with,,, Hmmmm,,
it is probably the only reason I am alive today,,,
I am positive at least twice.
The first was a needle,,, after that, thankfully,,, the sugar cube.
It was almost like an annual event,,,
All the kids went to a public Pittsburgh High School,,, (I was about 6,, IIRC)
We lived in the county,, our parents took us to the city for the vaccine.
Could you imagine getting parents to ALL do this on one Saturday,,, today??
Oh, yea,,, My Ma used a LOT of that red stuff,,, the rusty stuff I played with,,, Hmmmm,,
it is probably the only reason I am alive today,,,
SW MP15
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My mom used iodine in the early 60's and in the late 60's neosporine. And then butterfly stiches made with surgical tape on the deep wounds.Then we where back off to the yard to play.
Sugar cube, are you confusing your college days with hippie meds?
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My mom's parents lived in the hills, everything was back to basics. If you had a cut you got raw turpentine poured in or on it, that was the real deal turpentine distilled from raw pine...which by the way is where the term "cracker" comes from. For scrapes and such after the turpentine you might get a gob of bag balm rubbed into it, it was used to help a cow's udders that were gettin chapped. If you had a sore throat you got to gargle with warm water and a little dose of horse liniment in it. If you was draggin around and not feelin like goin outside to play you needed a physic, which was a double dose of castor oil which would clean you out like a white tornado. I can remember draggin around grandmas place, she said "go outside and play", I said "I don't feel like going outside grandma.", grandma said "OH, I guess you need a physic." To which I responded while headin for the door "No thanks grandma I feel much better already." When we was home mom had access to all the modern remedies like methiolate, I do remember it stingin but it didn't hold a candle to raw turpentine. I jammed a sliced willow staub through my foot after grandpa told me not to run in the crick bottom without my shoes on account of the road crews cutting willow sticks to mark the road in winter while plowin. I walked home with my shoes on blood coming out the shoes, grandpa said "running in the crick without them shoes I see." I said "Yessir." Grandpa takes me out on the porch with grandma and says "Mom you hold him down while I pour this turpentine in the hole in his foot." I can remember it like yesterday, he'd pour that liquid fire through the hole then work it a little, pour a little more, work it through until he was satisfied. For bandades all they did was wrap a piece of old bed sheet over the wound.
My favorite was when you had a fever, grandma would wrap you all up in blankets and sit you by the wood stove, then she would get a little china cup and put some honey in it, some butter, a dose of whisky and some hot water that was always in the kettle on the stove, then you would sip the magic elixer of life, fall asleep and wake up soaked in your own sweat, if you weren't up to snuff you got a repeat but most times you was ready for a good fight.
My favorite was when you had a fever, grandma would wrap you all up in blankets and sit you by the wood stove, then she would get a little china cup and put some honey in it, some butter, a dose of whisky and some hot water that was always in the kettle on the stove, then you would sip the magic elixer of life, fall asleep and wake up soaked in your own sweat, if you weren't up to snuff you got a repeat but most times you was ready for a good fight.
DWalt
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Most anyone who grew up in the 1940s and 1950s knew about Merthiolate. I haven't seen it for a long time, probably considered lethal to human life today. My mother's favorite "wonder drug" was Bag Balm, which is still available. She used it on any and all wounds, rashes, and burns. It was a salve similar to Vaseline that dairy farmers used on sore cow and goat udders. It came in a cube-shaped steel can.
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reddogge
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How about Milk of Magnesia for the ole upset stomach? Horrible.
My dad used to use merthiolate a lot. He was a wood pattern maker by trade so there were always splinters, sanding burns, etc. My mom, on the other hand, was convinced that hydrogen peroxide cured all ills (she was like the guy in My Big Fat Greek Wedding with the Windex).
Bkreutz
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I have a can of Bag Balm in the shop, does wonders when your hands dry out from gas/carb cleaner/brake clean/paint thinnner or any other noxious liquid.
Alk8944
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It may surprise many of you, but Merthiolate, Mercurochrome and Tincture of Iodine are all still available, contrary to what some have posted. Have you heard of "Google" by chance???????
mjr
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I remember all but the rectal thermometer, and it all happened to me. I probably got enough radiation to last my whole life from the shoe machines, and I should be left handed but when they made me write right handed, nobody has been able to read anything I've written since.
I was born in 1933, and I remember mercurochrome but not merthiolate. Before the Salk vaccine I remember being told not to play around the dust coming off the dirt road we lived on, as it might contain the Polio virus. Polio was a horrible scourge, and the world owes a debt of gratitude to Dr Salk.
Anyboyd remember citronella for keeping mosquitoes away?
I still have a bottle of Mercurochrome out in the shop. If you get a wood sliver put on a dab and it soaks up the Mercurochrome and turns red and you can see it to dig it out.
Ogandydancer
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My question is; and probably the better question who could ever forget it. Especially if you have ever had it used on you. In the summer time when we would go outside early in the morning barefooted and get all that dew up under the cracks of our toes and they would split open and hurt like fury but that stuff was way worse for burning.
I also remember Bismuth Violet which was almost as bad. We also had a yellow powder called BFI powders that was used to stop bleeding and it even worked reasonably well and was a best I remember fairly painless.
I also remember Bismuth Violet which was almost as bad. We also had a yellow powder called BFI powders that was used to stop bleeding and it even worked reasonably well and was a best I remember fairly painless.
Yes, sir. They can usually be found in the "Hispanic" medication section of your local drug store - at least in areas with a large Hispanic population. We called it monkey blood, too. Another home remedy I remember from when I was a kid was Percy Medicine. That was some nasty stuff for upset stomach. It is still available, too. Whenever we had diarrhea Mom would pick up some Infantol Pink. It was like Pepto Bismol, but it contained Opium. It is no longer available (for obvious reasons).
What was the vaccine they gave everyone when they smeared the stuff on your arm and repeatedly stabbed it with a needle??? It scabbed over and left a round indented scar in your skin when it finally healed. I had that done as a little kid, but it never "took" and I don't have the scar.
Papa32129
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How about rectal thermometers?
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Papa32129
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[quote name="arjay" post=138853046]I remember taking a vaccine on a sugar cube[/quote]<br />
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What was the vaccine they gave everyone when they smeared the stuff on your arm and repeatedly stabbed it with a needle??? It scabbed over and left a round indented scar in your skin when it finally healed. I had that done as a little kid, but it never "took" and I don't have the scar.
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But Bacillus Calmette-Guerin Vaccine
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What was the vaccine they gave everyone when they smeared the stuff on your arm and repeatedly stabbed it with a needle??? It scabbed over and left a round indented scar in your skin when it finally healed. I had that done as a little kid, but it never "took" and I don't have the scar.
BCG not bolt carrier group
But Bacillus Calmette-Guerin Vaccine
Small Pox..
Smallpox vaccines were given by way of multiple needle pricks into the skin that placed the LIVE sister virus therein. A scab formed and fell off, thus leaving the scar.
hangnoose
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I was talking about the 1970's- 1980's. We had live leaches for burn patients in the late 1980's, I'm sure they are still used today.
Lot's of things have "disappeared" from shelves, but were not actually banned at the time. As I recall we began seeing it in the early 80's - early 90's starting with things which were considered carcinogenic, today the stuff used in making meth is disappearing like pseudophed, even quinine in tonic water is harder to find. When the dopers figure out how to make meth from water, we will be in big trouble.
I was talking about the 1970's- 1980's. We had live leaches for burn patients in the late 1980's, I'm sure they are still used today.
Lot's of things have "disappeared" from shelves, but were not actually banned at the time. As I recall we began seeing it in the early 80's - early 90's starting with things which were considered carcinogenic, today the stuff used in making meth is disappearing like pseudophed, even quinine in tonic water is harder to find. When the dopers figure out how to make meth from water, we will be in big trouble.
Comrad
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As long as we're sharing cherished childhood memories, anyone ever go under the dreaded low speed, no water dental drill, no novocaine of course.
I had to be peeled off the ceiling more than once as a young lad having a tooth filled. Mercury in the silver filling of course.
I had to be peeled off the ceiling more than once as a young lad having a tooth filled. Mercury in the silver filling of course.
chaparrito
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Smallpox. Those of us "of a certain age" all got vaxed for it. I think it was declared eradicated back in the 70s and nobody since has been vaccinated. There is some concern that it could be fairly easily weaponized. Imagine some terrorist walking thru an airport with a little spray bottle, spritzing all the escalator rails and bathroom door handles.
I remember merthiolate, but it was reserved for serious owies. We usually got the same treatment as the livestock. Liniment, drawing salve, Dr. Naylor's Blue-Coat and BagBalm. I still keep all of those around. During the summer I spend a lot of time in Chaco river sandals and my heels get so calloused they crack open. Slather on the BagBalm and sleep with a sock on and in the morning you're good to go.
I have a cousin who survived Polio. She walks with a limp but is otherwise healthy. Actually made it out of the iron lung. They lined us up at school and gave us the sugar cubes. No permission slips and nobody was allowed to decline. The second time around they used these scary looking bulk injectors like I still use on the animals. I remember asking the very mean looking nurse in the starchy stiff nurse hat "where are the sugar cubes??"
chaparrito
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This is good stuff. It stinks because Ichthammol (ammonium bituminosulfonate) is made from tar sand goo. It's similar to road tar. I use it on the animals. Great for boils and eczema too.
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Sure do!
I went to catholic grade school and 3 times we had to walk, well escorted by no nonsense nuns about a mile to the public high school, go to the gym and get the shots. Then walk back and go to school for the remainder of the day!
All mine were shots, the easier method came out after I had my series of shots.
75Vette
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I reckon I had it made. My mom used Bactine on my scrapes. Easy peesy!!
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