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over a year ago
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I seem to remember being fed cod liver oil and haliborange as a kid, Mother swore by these, wouldn't let me out the door till i had taken them, and stuck ma tongue oot to prove it. Do remember getting these things or similar?? |
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"I seem to remember being fed cod liver oil and haliborange as a kid, Mother swore by these, wouldn't let me out the door till i had taken them, and stuck ma tongue oot to prove it. Do remember getting these things or similar?? "
Gentian Violet.
milk of magnesia.
Germolene
Banana flavoured amoxicillan.
vicks vapo rub  |
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"Lucozade,tasted different back then.Them were the days glass of Lucozade and a kick up the arse cured all ails  "
& lucozade was only sold in the chemist's shop and was wrapped in orange cellophane film!
Proper sticky pink Germolene, out the little metal tin, got smeared onto cuts & grazes.
My granny would rub Vicks on my chest at the first sign of a cough or sniffle. Sore throats would involve gargling with TCP (and subsequently total loss of all taste for several days) which was also liberally dabbed onto wounds/spots/bites/stings.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"If I needed paracetamol my mum would crush the tablet between two spoons and mix it with jam...it was a kinda disgusting
Thank god for Calpol  "
Ah forgot about calpol , think they do diff flavours now? |
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"If I needed paracetamol my mum would crush the tablet between two spoons and mix it with jam...it was a kinda disgusting
Thank god for Calpol
Ah forgot about calpol , think they do diff flavours now?"
They never had calpol when I was a kid
My wee people....although bigger.....still want calpol when they are ill, opposed to taking pills.
Always strawberry flavour I get. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I seem to remember being fed cod liver oil and haliborange as a kid, Mother swore by these, wouldn't let me out the door till i had taken them, and stuck ma tongue oot to prove it. Do remember getting these things or similar?? Gentian Violet.
milk of magnesia.
Germolene
Banana flavoured amoxicillan.
vicks vapo rub "
You would be surprised what other uses vicks is great for  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Cabbage juice
Will rid your body of all and any toxins
Leaves Also great for boobs when nursing
Onions
Also good for removing toxins out the body eat a raw onion for a sore throat and put one in your sock at bedtime to draw out the nasties
Iodine
Cute and scrapes
Callomine lotion
Spots, heat rash, prickly heat
TCP/vinegar/toothpaste
Stings
Amoxycillin
The cure all go to antibiotic
Augmentin liquid
When the amoxicillin wasn’t going to quite cut it this orange syrup mmmmm
Benylin drowsy/medised
When you couldn’t get a wean to sleep but also good for coughs, runny noses etc
Slap on the arse
To avoid future recurrence of accidents that couldn’t have been prevented |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Kaolin & Morphine "
I dear God that stuff was awful but cured the dodgy belly right enough
Sick in our house was a bottle of Lucozade, peeling off its shiny orange wrapper and duvet day |
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The poultice kne with soap and sugar, it fair drwes out the infection.
When I started my periods had bad pains and Mum gave me a "Ponstan" painkiller. Had no pain after that. Wish they still prescribed them, they were great painkillers.
LucoAde with wrapper was fab and the stuff nowadays doesn't taste the same.
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By *bostCouple
over a year ago
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"Askit and Beechams Powders.
They fixed all ailments according to my parents.
Mandy"
I remember being in a chippy in town one night rather worse for wear.
The guy in front of me is asking the server what that wee blue and white box was that was on the middle shelf beside the Mars bars?
She says Askit.
So the boy shouts ‘hey wee blue and white box, what are you?’
I nearly wet myself laughing and the server refused to serve the boy.
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And I remember she used to apply a poultice to the skin to help relieve inflammation and draw out poison. 
