Buckshot Bear Posted February 26, 2022 Share Posted February 26, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted February 26, 2022 Share Posted February 26, 2022 Absolutely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muleshoe Bill SASS #67022 Posted February 26, 2022 Share Posted February 26, 2022 Still have a bottle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bear Posted February 26, 2022 Author Share Posted February 26, 2022 You can still buy it here, not sure if it's as potent as the old stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted February 26, 2022 Share Posted February 26, 2022 Tincture Merthiolate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunder Creek Kid Posted February 26, 2022 Share Posted February 26, 2022 Sure did burn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted February 26, 2022 Share Posted February 26, 2022 Better than Iodine. That was brutal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chili Pepper Kid, SASS #60463 Posted February 26, 2022 Share Posted February 26, 2022 Many a day when I was growing up I'd go to school almost painted in the stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted February 26, 2022 Share Posted February 26, 2022 The (childhood) Red Badge of Courage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted February 26, 2022 Share Posted February 26, 2022 Me-curo-CHROOOOOME, you give us those niiiice bright colors, you give us the dre-ee-eams of Summer ... Wait a minute. Wrong song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Widder, SASS #59054 Posted February 26, 2022 Share Posted February 26, 2022 If you got a deep cut....... my folks would also pour salt in the wound. Not 'ON' it.... but 'IN' it. Poison Ivy also got a heavy dose of Clorox. UCK! ..........Widder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 Posted February 26, 2022 Share Posted February 26, 2022 Late 80s or early 90s, the stuff came in a squeeze bottle. I had a terrible case of sinus but didn't have my glasses on. I thought it was nasal decongestant. Shoved it up my schnoz and gave it a good blast. My wife was greatly amused at my ... response ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyesa Horg Posted February 26, 2022 Share Posted February 26, 2022 4 minutes ago, Widder, SASS #59054 said: If you got a deep cut....... my folks would also pour salt in the wound. Not 'ON' it.... but 'IN' it. Poison Ivy also got a heavy dose of Clorox. UCK! ..........Widder Miracle they didn't poison us! Mine used ammonia on the poison ivy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyesa Horg Posted February 26, 2022 Share Posted February 26, 2022 Odd how my reply went inside the quote, must be an Android thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Shapiro Posted February 26, 2022 Share Posted February 26, 2022 Geeze. At least your parents did something to try to help. If I came in with a cut I'd get a "don't track blood into the carpet, go clean it out, pour on some alcohol, and get a band-aid if needed. " Poison Ivy was "wash up real good, and you're gonna itch for a while. Try not to scratch" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted February 26, 2022 Share Posted February 26, 2022 Good stuff. And that glass applicator always felt cooling and soothing. Unlike either iodine or merthiolate (sp?), Those burned like fire. For cat scratches, thorn punctures, and the like it was Black Salve (Iodex). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 Once upon a time my father-in-law cut his hand and for some stupid reason poured children's liquid Tylenol on the cut. He said that it healed up real good. He also said that he danced around the room and screamed a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 2 hours ago, Chili Pepper Kid, SASS #60463 said: Many a day when I was growing up I'd go to school almost painted in the stuff. Yep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smuteye John SASS#24774 Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 1 hour ago, Widder, SASS #59054 said: If you got a deep cut....... my folks would also pour salt in the wound. Not 'ON' it.... but 'IN' it. Poison Ivy also got a heavy dose of Clorox. UCK! ..........Widder Clorox was for yellowjacket stings- if there wasn't a tobacco chewer handy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 Monkey Blood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 Mercurochrome Iodine Bactine And that pink stuff...Calamine? Always getting poison ivy on me somehow. All of these were used on me almost daily, it seemed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 I've got some Bactine in my medicine closet. Excellent stuff for bee stings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bear Posted February 27, 2022 Author Share Posted February 27, 2022 3 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said: For cat scratches, thorn punctures, and the like it was Black Salve (Iodex). My Mum had a jar of something she called Black Drawing Ointment that would pull splinters, thorns, pus etc out of wounds, from memory it smelt like tar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. James H. Callahan Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 28 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said: My Mum had a jar of something she called Black Drawing Ointment that would pull splinters, thorns, pus etc out of wounds, from memory it smelt like tar. Ichthammol ointment. Been unavailable for years here in the US. Don't know what happened, it just disappeared. I'm a pharmacist and I don't know. JHC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badlands Bob #61228 Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 I got my tonsils painted with that Mecurochrome any time I complained about a sore throat. I hope the stuff wasn't poisonous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 7 minutes ago, Badlands Bob #61228 said: I got my tonsils painted with that Mecurochrome any time I complained about a sore throat. I hope the stuff wasn't poisonous. When I first read that I thought it said I GOT MY TOENAILS PAINTED... Wondered how that could possibly help a sore throat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 25 minutes ago, Badlands Bob #61228 said: I got my tonsils painted with that Mecurochrome any time I complained about a sore throat. I hope the stuff wasn't poisonous. Yeah. If it was you're likely dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 in the late 50s my mom used iodine and it left a stain that outlived the pain , there were times you weighed the results against the incident very carefully in your young mind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keystone, SASS # 47578 Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 My father's go to antiseptic was ST37 for cuts & gargle for sore throat. We also kept a bottle of peroxide with the first aid materials. Don't recall any iodine or mercurochrome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bob Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 7 hours ago, Alpo said: When I first read that I thought it said I GOT MY TOENAILS PAINTED... Wondered how that could possibly help a sore throat. At first glance I saw the same thing as Alpo , that worries me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 You are being assimilated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 lots of ole time remedies are gone. Musterole Calamine lotion Cod Liver oil Wine-Cola Ath-Lo-Phos-Ros Bickmore's Gall Cure Baco-Curo Dr. Pierce's Prescription Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EZ Creek, SASS 111615 Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 Split my knee open as a kid, Grandma put kerosene on it the next day wasn't even sore. Still have the scar though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 My Mom used to give me some elixir that tasted and smelled like camphor when I had a sore throat when I was little. No idea what that stuff was. She also had stomach medicine that had opium in it. That stuff knocked me out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunder Creek Kid Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 My mom’s answer for everything was an enema. Everything from splinters to headaches! Finally figured out. Keep me aches and pains to myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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