General Chat

Hi I checked the Boots web site
It is still listed as able to order?
Free delivery to a store or charged to your home

Might still be worth it if you want some to keep by you, just check the expiry date !!

Linda :o) XxX

Hi Dorothy Teresa. I like Milo also. The last time I saw it, it was in Sainbury's, if that helps. They also used to sell it at the Co-operative, but don't know about nowadays.
Julia in Derbyshire

i get night starvation all the time sharon, i take horlicks does nothing just tastes great, i loved milo but have not seen it for ages
dorothy teresa

Carters Little Liver Pills.Never took them,don;t even know what they were for but remember the adverts. Bile Beans.

My dad took something for a bad back that made his wee blue.

Does any body still suffer from night starvation and have to drink Horlicks?

My mates old dad had short term memory loss and was obsessed with his bowels. The doctor put him on an orange flavoured drink called Fibogel I believe.Rather than give him the huge quantity of this that he believed he needed we would give him two orange Tic-Tacs with a glass of water and tell him they were Fibogel pills. Apparently they were very effective!

white horse oil, i have not seen that since i was a kid we allways had some around the house for aches and pains, i also remember the smell
used to make my eyes water
dorothy teresa

Amazing how many old remedies we remember. Virol was lovely. My Mother used to buy some horrid stuff in a bottle called "yellow mixture". I haven't a clue what it was for, but it was vile.

I bit my nails until bitter aloes were applied. It didn't stop my brother biting his.

Interesting to read all the posts.

Rita, if I can find the old box I will pm you with details of manufacturers of Snowfire. I think it is in one of OHs drawers.

EMBROCATION ! I've been struggling for the word

Sloans liniment and white horse oil.really smelly and stronger than any of that deep heat stuff. My dad rubbed it on his chilblains by mistake and leapt out of bed with burning toes ! No amount of washing removed it.

bread poultice or kaolin used (on me) for boils on my neck!

still got the scars!!

What was a bread poultice for? Was it splinters?

A paste of Epsom salts is good on a boil.

what about thermo gene?

was a wadding that relieved cold.. I knew a man that used it in his false hand attachment

Bob

my gran used wilkinsons snuff, i used to go to the corner shop and by it for her, if i had a cold she would make me take some
vile stuff, used to make me sick by for now

hi barbara
i think treacle althoug sweet is better than cod liver oil
spec if its in liquid form yuk
and ksthy i had to laught at your grans use of germaline
dorothy teresa by for now all

That figures, Lindsey. I think Vaseline is cheaper tho


Lizx

I was told that sheep shearers never got cracked hands.!

Boots still sell pure lanolin in tiny tins the best winter remedy for hands and heels .

I can remember most of those remedies. The Germolene in the tin smelled lovely - it was known as the pink ointment in my family.
I hated Liquifruita - I always thought it smelled of onions and I loathed onions when small but garlic was the main ingredient.

I can remember Golden Eye Ointment and also Iodine, my Dad was one for using that as he had been an army medic so I supposed used it a lot. He would blow on the wound as he applied it to help stop the stinging, not very hygienic but it always healed ok.

I have been using Vaseline lately, my hands got very sore so I plastered Vaseline on before bed and wore a pair of cotton gloves purchased from the local supermarket for a pound - they were purple of course lol - called Minigrip gloves/multipurpose house and garden glove. Made all the cracks and rough skin go away.

I too took Virol or cod liver oil and malt. Gor some when my son was small but he didn't like it so I had it, he loved cod liver oil by the spoonful tho and still buys the capsules today sometimes.

I just found this site with some interesting reading:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northeast/sites/yoursay/pages/mother.shtml
and this one:
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100722171704AAhq3iD




Lizx

Dinnefords and gripe water were always my favourites. I used them for hangovers when I was probably old enough to know better than get them!

Liquifruita is another one I remember.Didn't it have garlic in it?

What about Eucryl tooth powder.I always loved the taste of that and it came in lovely sturdy plastic boxes.I think you can still get it but in a much less robust box.

Delrosa rose-hip syrup.That certainly made me what I am today, well portly!

My Granny used to smell of germaline

I asked her what she used it for and she told me she put it on her bottom ??? !!! piles I pressume

Kathy

hi all
i love the smell of germaline too
does anyone remember being forced as a child to eat off the spoon malt and cod liver oil yuk
dorothy teresa

Hi Rita and Jean
I suffered every year with chilblains when I was a child in the days before central heating. We always had Melrose to rub in.
Anyone else remember that one?

Linda :O) XxX