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As a kid , Mum used to dose us up with Fennings fever cure.Anyone else remember this foul tasting concoction?...You couldn,t drink it......only sip it.... and the taste stayed for hours...She used to give us a sweet to get rid of the taste ....it never did.This horrible cure was supposed to combat the common cold and myriad other diseases.
Not content with this torture....us kids were made to swallow olive oil and raspberry vinegar and halibut liver oil capsules...URRGGGGGHHHHHHH!

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I do not remember the medicine but I do remember Fenning Little healers , mum called them Lung Healers , they were ever so tiny, like a pinhead of a tablet.

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Fond rememberance, must have been wierd then as I loved it. Had a cat that started sneezing so Dad gave it some Fennings - we didn't see the cat for over a week.:D

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I can always remember my mother using Hills Bronchial balsam when she had a chesty cough, I used it early on, but never seemed to do me much good

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I liked the stuff , think the quinine in it gave me a taste for Gin and Tonic in later years ;)

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LOL .. 'you lot' are so funny.

Only Beecham's Powder ... put on a spoon mixed with a fruit jam .. that was yucky too. :(

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I remember Fennings Fever cure, and the little lung healers.......and Beechams powders(Kate, we got 'em just as they were, we were too poor to get jam).
I hated Cod Liver oil, but the rule in our house was, if you didn't take the cod liver oil, then you didn't get your share of the clinic orange juice.
I used to get around this by swigging my clinic orange juice when Ma was out of the house, and diluting what was left in the bottle with tap water.

Virol, Scotts Emulsion...the stuff that kept us going...oh no! sorry that was California Syrup of Figs:D

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Gosh, forgotten about that .. yes, was really thick . Can taste it now. Naughty girl ... Guess survival of the fittest, eh ? :D

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i remember Fennings cooling powders, i used them once or twice for Reece when he was a baby

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Oooh, it was lovely. We never got sweet things, so this was a real treat, and to be denied it because I wouldn't have the cod liver oil, was a real punishment.

As for sweet things.......we used to sit on the back step during the summer(although we called it the back stoop) with a bit of rhubarb and a paper twist of sugar......if we had no rhubarb, it was a twist of paper with cocoa and a bit of sugar......dipping our mucky fingers in and licking off the chocolatey flavour. The nearest we got to chocolate was 'Worm Cakes'.....does anyone remember those?
Aah sweet memories.

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Always used to have to drink Fever Cure straight out of the bottle. Thought it was poison but my mother always had a good look at the bottle and wouldn't let me off until a decent amount had gone down my throat.

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What was that "malt extract" stuff ? my family never had it but other did , a largetin or jam jar in the middle of the dinner table and after the food had been eaten those who wanted dug in and helped themselves to a spoonful , the stuff looked like treacle but was I suppose some sort of 1950s food supplement.

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Virol(mentioned in post 7).......I hated that too. Maybe because it was cod liver oil and malt......I just cannot stand cod liver oil........I know it is good for you, but it is hateful stuff.

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Beecham's powders, hell my mother used to swear by them, first signs of a cold out the the BPs:D

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Ugh cod liver oil Margaret I shudder just thinking about it, hated it with a vengeance:eek:

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when i was a kid buttercup syrup if a sore throat or a cough ... milk of magnesia if owt else ...

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Wasn't it 'Bovril in a strange shaped jar?

Can any one remember Andrew's Liver salts.
I remember taking a load once (because it was so fizzy) and you can guess where I spent the following days!!

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Virol was in a shaped Jar, but slightly taller and less rounded that the Bovril shape.
Jen....do you mean to tell me that you were not coaxed, cajoled and threatened with Cod Liver Oil in some guise or other?
If that is the case, I am going to report my ma for child abuse.

And I remember Andrews liver salts too.
My dad once sent me to the shop for Bile Beans......he was feeling what in those days was called 'liverish'.......you could either buy them in a sort of tube, or you could buy them six for a penny(or it might have been five......I forget now......it was a long time ago).....he gave me tuppence.
I was given the Bile Beans in a twist of paper. On the way home curiousity got the better of me. I opened the twist of paper and popped one of the little sugar coated tablets into my mouth and let it melt.......once the sugar coating was sucked off the pill tasted vile.
When I got home I handed the paper twist over to my dad, who counted out the little pills and declared that I had been 'done'.......got one less pill that I had paid for, and sent me back to the shop with the twist of paper with the pills in.

I couldn't hardly admit that I had tried one of those Vile Beans(that was what they were dubbed after I had tasted them) and spat it out because it was horrible.

Indian Brandee...that was another one of those old remedies...it tasted nothing at all like Brandy...was used for bad belly ache.
I feigned belly ache a few times to try and get a spoonful, but was always given syrup of figs if I claimed to have belly ache.

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hate to say this margaret .. but no i never got dosed with castor oil ..:D

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No Jen...not Castor oil.........cod liver oil!

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never had cod liver oil ....

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ooooh, you lucky josser!

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Hell its a long time since I heard that saying Margaret:D

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I liked it!!!!! & the olive oil & raspberry vinegar,I liked squirting Jiff lemon in my mouth to.

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Is Scotts Emulsion and Fennings Fever Cure still going

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Fennings Fever cure contained diluted nitric acid which is on the 'hazardous substance list' and is toxic.

This website shows the 'snake oil' remedies used in victorian days.

http://chesterrep.openrepository.com...am%20Press.pdf
analysis of Fenning's Fever Cure which revealed that the 'cure' was merely a dilute solution of nitric acid and peppermint

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So my mother was, trying to poison me?

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Every time my mother gave it to me I told her she was trying to poison me. Now I know it was true!

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She didn't do a very good job Roy:D:D

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It must have cured the fever because what ever was wrong with me out came the fennings fever cure, They must have thought it cured everything. Possibly did.

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No one's discovered Scott's Emulsion it had a picture of a large fish on the bottle,can't think what that was supposed to cure.

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You can still buy it, it's basically cod liver oil and vitamins, hence the picture, of a man carrying a cod on his back.

Scotts Emulsion

Website in Norwegian!

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Thank's again Susie, dare I say, as in another post great detective work once more.Have you tried it.

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I remember when I was young my Mother used Hills Bronchial Balsam, this was before anti bios became the norm, but I still used it up to about twenty years ago, and to be honest writing about it I can still remember the taste:eek:

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Had it when I was little, tasted pretty foul as I remember. Also had Virol, Fennings fever cure and lung healers, Carters little little liver pills and Dr Williams pink pills for pale people which were iron tablets and Multivite brown vitamin pills and Minadex tonic syrup.

It's a wonder I didn't rattle!

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Possibly all the liquids made the pills float.

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Anyone tried Pulmo Bailly ?

As soon as you take the top off the smell drives the germs away .

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Nice one Roy hadn't thought of that :hehetable

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Fennings Fever Cure always cured me whatever my complaint and I wish I could get a bottle now - along with Fennings Little Healers. They always seemed to work.

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Ha ha. Yes, it is an acquired taste but works. I usually have a glass of lemonade straight after taking it so the taste doesn't linger.:D

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These old threads may interest you.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...ist-54626.html

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...-up-23210.html

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I remember fennings fever cure well. We got ours in little folded paper packets and mixed with water, i loved the taste? Always worked wonders for our aiments, even used it for my children years ago, not sure if still available. The dreaded mix was from our old Irish Grandma a huge dose of malt and codliver oil in spring as a cure all. Vile! Saying that, we never seemed to ail anything!