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I mentioned Scotts emulsion when remembering the smell of a Chemist Shop in Ossy called Emeric Eccles and it bought back memories of all sorts of things my Mum used to dose us with!! Dr.William's Pink Pills,Little Lung Healers,Allenbury's Malt and Cod Liver Oil,Suleo ( for nits!),worm cakes Ugh!! Camphor Blocks....I had one in a little bag pinned to my vest( until I was about 15!) To keep colds away,supposedly,Witch hazel,Nitbone,Syrup of Figs and Haliborange Tablets.We never went to the doctor as Emeric could mix a bottle for anything.
Lots more which I will remember I am sure.

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There are quite a few mentioned in this old thread
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...-up-23210.html

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Fennings Fever cure,,,,Sulpher Tablets,,,Olive oil and Raspberry Vinigar,,,,

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I remember we used to go to the corner shop for a measure of Indian 'Brandy' for a bad stomach - dunno what it was! Also Wintergreen ointment & Doan's pills (for backache?).

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I used to do my own Photographic developing and printing in black & white and later on in colour even did my own slides.
my grandfather was a founder member of the Preston camera club
he had a lot of very old negatives ie Preston guild 1902 on glass
he had a book of recipes for his own developers that i used to use
and there was a chemist on New Hall Lane in Preston called McLaughlin's he was into developing his own photos too so he would supply the chemicals needed including Potassium Fer cyanide .

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my gran used to use smelling salts but thats all i can remember, i do know they smelt awful though, what was in them?

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Smelling salts, ammonium carbonate, a colorless-to-white, crystalline solid ((NH4)2CO3·H2O)

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Indian brandy.

A thick, foul looking black liquid, that worked, when taken with hot water, for tummy ache.

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indian brandee is tincture of rhubarb and you can still buy it. as at any chemist as its usually behind the counter.

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thanx Mick

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That's why I'm tummy ache free.

:D

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I once asked for some Indian Brandy for one of my kids in Londons Victoria Station,,,,the girl at the till thought i had lost the plot,,,

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Like asking for a packet of Woodbine's in London, they smoked Players Weights down yon:D

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Lung Healers???? Tiny little round tablets and I have no idea what they did to you and for what!!! (Yes I can see Lung in the title!!!) :confused::confused::confused:

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Bile Beans......Worm Cakes(no they weren't made out of worms) like big chocolate drops with hundreds and thousands on........they looked pleasant, but made you crap over a five barred gate.

Indian Brandee....now that was something. I once feigned belly ache and was given a hefty dose of this vile potion......that put paid to my antics.

All these potions stemmed from the days when it was sixpence(or something like that) to visit the doctor....you couldn't afford the medic so you threw yourself on the mercy of the chemist......and they gave you something in a calibrated bottle with a cork stuck in it.
We used to save the medicine bottles to put spanish water in when we went to play in Bullough Park for the day.
God, it is a wonder any of us survived.

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My dad did his own photographic developing too ,but he used to get his supplies from Waltons........ a photgraphic shop at the top end of Abbey street....next to the sweet shop and not far from the methodist Church....don't know if anyone remembers it now. I am going back a long long time....over 50 years.

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Although a sweet rather than a medicine, I remember locists. They were something like a small banana with a most unusual taste. Possibly there were a dried fruit. I haven't seen or heard of them since 1952. I suspect they might have been something which was imported at a time when sweets were on ration. Please will somebody tell me about them.I bought them in a shop in Annie Street near the bridge over the railway near to St Joseph's church. I wonder if they still have them in stock?

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Sorry - a typo. Should be locusts - as in the insect .

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When sweets were on ration I used to get Victory V Lozenges which were not rationed. Also Milk of Magnesia tablets which were quite squishy.Also there was a stick of liquorish which tasted quite nice when chewed.Us kids did not let a bit of rationing get us down.

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I have recently rediscovered that liquorice taste - liquorice root teabags - identical to the taste of those woody sticks we used to chew and suck.

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"Waltons" photographic shop top end of Abbey St, can't recall Waltons being up there.
The nearest Methodist Church was in Barnes St.
50 years ago I used to get my photographic materials from Garth Dawson.

Retlaw.

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Them Locusts were actually Locust Beans still in the pod, they were dried.
Look a bit like runner pean pods, but the ones we grow in this country, when the pod dries the pod goes like paper & the beans fall out.
They could be still around, but thad av to search thinternet for um.
Retlaw.

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the Methodist church I referred to Retlaw was the Wesley Methodist Church in nearby Spring Gardens.

I remember getting Locust beans in Lucky bags when I was a little girl......I liked them then......but tried them in Spain many years later and found them to taste horrible.
They feed them to the livestock in Spain.
They are also known as Carob beans and are used in the manufacture of ersatz chocolate.

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I know, I know...I need to get a life!

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Why the eck didn'ti set Weslyans itut fost place.
Thur wur all suorts o God botherers in thad area, wod wi Swedenborgs i Abbey St, Calvanists i Chapel St, un yon other lot i Oauk street.
Thur wur near as many o them botherers as thur were pubs at one time.

Retlaw.:D;):D;):D;):D

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Retlaw, to me a methodist is a methodist, whether it be wesleyan or otherwise....speaking of pubs, there was one of those close by Waltons too...was it the Red Lion? I can't really remember, I wasn't old enough to sup anything stronger than dandelion and burdock. :)

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What was the stuff that they gave to kids , came in a small bottle with a tapering neck , the contents used to settle into three levels and colours, needed shaking up before use, think one of the contents was just a raspberry flavouring , my Grandma used to warm it up in front of the fire before dosing me. :confused:

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you can still buy licorice root.... (the woody stuff you refer to)

spanish water, can i ask is it what i think it is, corporation pop in a bottle with a chunck of "spanish" aka licorice...... shoo up regularly to inbibe the flavour throughout?

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Reight, bud thi wur still god bothurers, any way next tut Red Lion wur a shu shop tha went deaun sum steps tu ged in, big frunt windu on Abbey St, then two shops wi a commun entrunce shop dours wur set back abeaut 4 fuut fray frunt, then anuther shop, then a ginnal that led tu sum steps, witch went down a fur way to a house at the bottom, lad a knu lived thear, bud a caerned remember is name.
Next wurt Wesley, thad wur knocked deawn in 1966.

I'd like to know what happened to their War Memorial.
Retlaw

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Spot on there entwisi........a ha'penny liquorice stick(the bitter hard stuff) was broken up into bits and put in the bottom of the medicine bottle....filled up with tap water...cork replaced and then shook like billyho.
It used to get a frothy yeallowish head on it, and got better the further down the bottle you supped.......the liquorice lay at the bottom in a congealed mess......we used to knock on doors to get the lady of the house to refill our bottle with water.
This, and a penny hovis loaf and we could play in Bullough Park all day....only returning home at teatime. No wonder we were thin.
Those were the days.

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Haha, Margaret, only mentioned the half penny spanish on another site the other week. Wondered if just a Northern thing as the Southerners were puzzled.

My dad used to get a thick spanish when he had a tickly cough ... about 3/4" in diameter ... used to chop bits off as you do with rock ... lay knife on spanish at the size you require, then hit with rolling pin. Was yummee.

Remember the Indian Brandy, as mentioned, very bitter. Used for all types of tummy pains, including menstrual cramps .. not really sure if it worked though.

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I only tried the indian brandee once for a fake tummy ache.......it was vile, and I did not ever consider repeating the experience!

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Fenning's Fever Cure - must have had a masochistic streak when young, really screwed your mouth up but I liked it. My Dad once gave some to the cat when it was sneezing - we didn't see it again for well over a week.

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Some of these old remedies are still available.
I have recently bought Lion Oinment and Lugols Iodine


http://www.regenerativenutrition.com/content.asp?id=523

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My mother used to make me drink fever cure straight out of the bottle. She never measured it out but sometimes would put a mark on the side of the bottle to make sure i'd drunk enough. Vile stuff.

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i did all that margret i can still taste that spanish water

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I think they contained Ipecacuna which is an expectorant used in cough medicines to make you cough it up!

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[quote=katex;840708] Southerners were puzzled.

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Nout new there Kate:rolleyes:

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A nice pint of mild will get rid of that tosh:D

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My dad paid a shilling a week to our doctor before the start of the NHS but I don't know if that covered me and my parents or just him.
The doctor also made up his own fancy remedies. The doctor before him took out the tonsils of my father and his brother when they were young in the kitchen of the house they lived in.

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'Fake' ! ... :eek:

Had to chuckle at that one ... sounds like 'Ma' had you sussed out ... :D

If you read Margaret's blogs, you will understand this observation.

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I think it was my gran actually.........I always wanted to taste the indian brandee...it sounded....interesting, exotic even.......so I told her i had really bad belly ache......like all grans, she asked me when I had last 'been'......sent me out to the backyard Lavvy for a sit(yes, a sit) and when I came back saying I still hadn't been......I got a dose of indian brandee.....eeewwww! It was vile. Do you think that that could be what put me off anything foreign? Could it have scarred me for life?

Have you noticed that indian brandee is spelt different to the real stuff......do you think it is to stop you getting confused between the two?

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Stop it Kate.........I know you are laughing! :)

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I have strained my back moving furniture and the 'horse liniment'(DMSO) doesn't ease the backache completely so I websearched for Fiery Jack which I recall from my childhood.

Many sites list it for sale, but all show it out of stock/no longer available.
From what I have read on forums, Fiery Jack is no longer produced.
I found only one tin on ebay - rusted lid - 7days left for bids :(
I have suffered for a week already and can't wait another.

I have located a milder substitute -
Red Tiger Balm - an ancient chinese remedy.
Tiger Balm Red

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I remember Fiery jack........one of my brothers( I won't name him) put some on our cats bottom and laughed when the poor cat was dragging its burning bum along the cold lino in the kitchen and running round like....well, like its bum was on fire.

My dad used to use a belladona plaster for backache...or Thermogene......an orange cotton wool type stuff........I think you positioned it where the pain was and put your vest on over the top and tucked it in tight........I can't imagine this stuff stayed in place very well.

Margaret, aren't there different grades of Tiger Balm?

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Yes - I have ordered the hottest:D

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Fiery jack brings back memorys,:D once at a place i worked the foreman was a right git, so rubbed fiery jack round the rim of his pint pot, it actually split his lips, that shut him up fer a time.:D:D

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Can remember the shop,was called "Friths" but not the Locusts.:confused: