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Cirque du So-What

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16. Unfortunately, yes

Sun Apr 5, 2020, 01:21 PM

Apr 2020

Makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up thinking about it. Oh, yeah...cod liver oil too. Believe it or not, it also came in mint flavor, which made it even worse.

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I dreamed about merthiolate last night [View all] cyclonefence Apr 2020 OP

Sulpha powder. Turbineguy Apr 2020 #1

Yes! Yellow caked on your scrapes! n/t cyclonefence Apr 2020 #5

is that the same as B.F.I. powder yellowdogintexas Apr 2020 #80

No idea. Turbineguy Apr 2020 #87

We also kept mercurochrome, Unguentine and Campho Phenique Arkansas Granny Apr 2020 #2

Our knees were always painted orange with the mercurochrome. Laffy Kat Apr 2020 #3

My mom MFM008 Apr 2020 #52

Yup SheltieLover Apr 2020 #53

Mercurochrome cyclonefence Apr 2020 #7

Mercurochrome and merthiolate both came in glass bottles with rubber stoppers with glass rod applica Arkansas Granny Apr 2020 #13

Yep cyclonefence Apr 2020 #15

I remember that bottle so well. Laffy Kat Apr 2020 #59

Imagine deliberately applying mercury to an open wound today! lagomorph777 Apr 2020 #111

I still keep Campho Phenique yellowdogintexas Apr 2020 #82

I don't remember any wonderful medicines. cayugafalls Apr 2020 #4

An early tens unit? SheltieLover Apr 2020 #55

I suppose it could be, but it was a quack device. I found it this morning on the web. cayugafalls Apr 2020 #63

Thanks! SheltieLover Apr 2020 #65

You are welcome! cayugafalls Apr 2020 #66

You, too! SheltieLover Apr 2020 #73

I've seen those go for big bucks to collectors. lagomorph777 Apr 2020 #112

Fletcher's Castoria Cirque du So-What Apr 2020 #6

I *loved* Fletcher's Castoria cyclonefence Apr 2020 #9

Unfortunately, yes Cirque du So-What Apr 2020 #16

My mom would line up all 4 of us for the cod liver oil. LastDemocratInSC Apr 2020 #58

Me too! Backseat Driver Apr 2020 #18

Me too. My parents were big on that when they said I was "cranky." Hoyt Apr 2020 #39

I hated being called "cranky." Harker Apr 2020 #44

LOL, I remember the ads for Flectcher's. Laffy Kat Apr 2020 #60

Caladryl. You can still get it, I think, but I remember going through The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2020 #8

Measles, too cyclonefence Apr 2020 #10

And chicken pox. The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2020 #14

CalaMINE, elleng Apr 2020 #20

I think Ocelot is older cyclonefence Apr 2020 #24

Mebbe, but I'm pretty old, elleng Apr 2020 #32

The go to remedy for chiggers. Harker Apr 2020 #45

God yes. Chiggers are vile little beasts that burrow under your yellowdogintexas Apr 2020 #81

We had 'em in East Texas when I was growing up. All the time, it seemed like... CTyankee Apr 2020 #84

I haven't thought of them for 50 years. Harker Apr 2020 #85

Similar but different PennyK Apr 2020 #62

My mom used white shoe polish I_UndergroundPanther Apr 2020 #46

I am now a proponent of triple antibiotic ointment Cirque du So-What Apr 2020 #11

It was bothering me so much cyclonefence Apr 2020 #23

Speaking of super glue... Cirque du So-What Apr 2020 #25

I have some of that cyclonefence Apr 2020 #26

New Skin has been around a while. House of Roberts Apr 2020 #57

My mother Chainfire Apr 2020 #12

"you could enjoy it longer". Yum. yonder Apr 2020 #17

My friend's father swore on blackberry brandy cyclonefence Apr 2020 #22

I have some gentian violet on my big toe right now ms liberty Apr 2020 #19

Whoa cyclonefence Apr 2020 #21

OhhEmmmGeeee! I have never met ANYONE who had ever even heard of it before ms liberty Apr 2020 #35

Oh I remember the wonderful paregoric... Trueblue Texan Apr 2020 #27

Oh, yeah! Ohiogal Apr 2020 #101

Does Pabst blue ribbon count my dad favorite TEB Apr 2020 #28

Well, it wouldn't have a blue ribbon cyclonefence Apr 2020 #31

I just got a new mandolin and it came with kevlar gloves. Buy comradebillyboy Apr 2020 #29

Well, I inherited the Feemster cyclonefence Apr 2020 #33

I've gotten some nasty cuts from mandolins and I was comradebillyboy Apr 2020 #34

Epsom salts for "purgative" purposes and for soaking sprained ankles Glorfindel Apr 2020 #30

Ichthemol...spelling...was what my mother put on a boil and it drew the crud right up! Karadeniz Apr 2020 #36

Did she call it "drawing ointment?" cyclonefence Apr 2020 #37

Black Salve Kimber432 Apr 2020 #97

That's the kind we had! cyclonefence Apr 2020 #98

I still swear by Bactine WestLosAngelesGal Apr 2020 #38

Phisohex Throckmorton Apr 2020 #40

Not on OTC med, but a home concoction my mother loved - milk toast. 3catwoman3 Apr 2020 #41

My mom tried to get me I_UndergroundPanther Apr 2020 #47

I remember my mom and grandmother trying to push that on me a few times. Ohiogal Apr 2020 #103

And so many of them were "Tincture of...." Golden Raisin Apr 2020 #42

My grandmother was an LVN and used to swab my throat TexasBushwhacker Apr 2020 #43

Here in 2020 I use Vicks VapoRub as drawing ointment. It works great, but use only the abqtommy Apr 2020 #48

Elixer terpin hydrate with codeine cyclonefence Apr 2020 #50

My Mom kept a bottle of tincture of iodine in the medicine cabinet csziggy Apr 2020 #49

That's a tough allergy to have cyclonefence Apr 2020 #51

Whatever they gave me for showers before the surgery made me itch csziggy Apr 2020 #61

mercurachrome rampartc Apr 2020 #54

... and where, exactly, do you live, cyclonefence Apr 2020 #67

a few times, long ago, rampartc Apr 2020 #69

REALLY? cyclonefence Apr 2020 #71

the mercury looked wild on those old silver quarters rampartc Apr 2020 #72

Yep, Heavenly Blue cyclonefence Apr 2020 #74

i missed that particular craze rampartc Apr 2020 #78

You must love him very much. Reading your thread was dewsgirl Apr 2020 #56

Fifty years and counting cyclonefence Apr 2020 #68

I heard that Chloroquine disinfects and heals without scars. Trump swears by it. JustABozoOnThisBus Apr 2020 #64

Oh, these salads are meatless cyclonefence Apr 2020 #70

Ha, I prefer beets in my salad. They can hide a lot of blood. nt JustABozoOnThisBus Apr 2020 #75

I'm really slow on the uptake cyclonefence Apr 2020 #90

Hannibal Lecter would have caught the joke. JustABozoOnThisBus Apr 2020 #95

For some reason, Jeffrey Dahmer springs to mind cyclonefence Apr 2020 #96

My dad thought Pepto Bismal could solve anything intestinal Heartstrings Apr 2020 #76

Doesn't this constitute child abuse? cyclonefence Apr 2020 #88

Thinking back, Heartstrings Apr 2020 #110

In the salad? In the salad? In the salad? No! Glad I kept reading. IADEMO2004 Apr 2020 #77

Some kind person suggested Kevlar gloves cyclonefence Apr 2020 #89

My sister has the gloves. I thought merthiolate was going in the salad. Hair on fire!! IADEMO2004 Apr 2020 #107

I remember it well! MountainMama Apr 2020 #79

I was given castor oil once in my life cyclonefence Apr 2020 #91

Sloan's liniment. lpbk2713 Apr 2020 #83

Oil of cloves for a toothache discntnt_irny_srcsm Apr 2020 #86

You must've been one of those rich folks cyclonefence Apr 2020 #93

My wife has always been a voracious reader discntnt_irny_srcsm Apr 2020 #105

I've taken the end off of both thumbs with those darned slicers! Hugin Apr 2020 #92

I just bought some Kevlar gloves--I'll send you one N/T cyclonefence Apr 2020 #94

Watkins vanilla (white) liquid syrup and Coca Cola syrup, milk toast and 7 Up Kimber432 Apr 2020 #99

Coca Cola syrup really does work cyclonefence Apr 2020 #100

Iodine or mercurochrome randr Apr 2020 #102

If it doesn't sting, it doesn't work n/t cyclonefence Apr 2020 #104

General rule of thumb randr Apr 2020 #108

The real wicked stuff was Nitrotan from Kramer. That was like using rubbing alcohol and lighting it brewens Apr 2020 #106

I use tea tree oil WhiteTara Apr 2020 #109