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Glycerin and Opodeldoc for chapped hands. I remember when I worked in a pharmacy in the early-mid 60's this was always asked for by the women finishing work at Empire Rib on a Friday afternoon.

I was once asked for Kaylene Mauve (kaolin and morphine) which made me smile.

 

Interesting. That was another favourite of my mothers - glycerin mixed with soap linament (opodeldoc ?), then diluted with water. As a cure for chapped or rough hands it was without peer - she said it was widely used by women who worked in the textile trade to keep their hands soft and avoid snagging fine material. I was using this well into the 80's.

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Can anyone give me an old cure for blocked ear!!!!!! No harsh stuff, I've had it blocked last year and doc said it didn't need syringing after weeks of olive oil it did the trick but woke up today and it's back after months of bliss! Olive oil again folks?

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Well, we had some unique ailments, which I've never heard of since.

 

Chilblains, hot aches, and I can't think of the name for that discoloration or mottling that women got on the back of their legs from sitting on the fireguard with their skirt up.

 

A little baking soda in water for indigestion seemed to work.

 

The legs thing, my wife used to call corned beef legs:)

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any old cures for baldness if there is I would be a millionaire over night.

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Wasnt there a bread poultice for drawing out boils?,and the belladonna plasters and thermogene.

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Magnesium Sulphate (Pasta Mag Sulph) paste for boils

Gentian Violet to treat ringworm, they used to paint it on kids' heads!

Beacham's Powders for colds/flu

Fennings Little healers to loosen coughs associated with colds/catarrh

Ipecacuanha & Squill for coughs

Woodwards Gripe Water which was about 3% alcohol (no wonder babies slept!)

Calamine Lotion

Andrews Liver salts

 

Going back to poultices, girls were taught how to make bread poultices in cookery lessons in the 1940's.

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Sweaty sock for sore throats when you go to bed .Camphorated oil rubbed on your chest for coughs , i believe it was banned eventually shame it was a good remedy.(Thats the way to do it)

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Bile Beans - that turned your water green.

Carters Little Liver pills.

Zambuck (?)

TCP for everything - who could forget that smell ?

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Bile Beans - that turned your water green.

Carters Little Liver pills.

Zambuck (?)

TCP for everything - who could forget that smell ?

Along with Ellimans rubbing solution.

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Another poultice for boils (not so painful!) - Soap and Sugar.

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My Grandma always used to buy us a huge jar of cod liver oil and malt at this time of the year. Not sure why but I suspect it was to do with keeping bad chests away. Her first born died of TB at 17.

 

She used to make barley water for her kidneys and if she thought she was getting cold she used to tie a warm stocking round her neck.

 

She lived to 94 and when she needed a hysterectomy in her early 80's the doctor was surprised that it had been approx 50 years since she'd last been to the doctors.

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