Do you remember old remedies bought from the chemist - Page 3

katex · 27-08-2010, 09:36

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.

Margaret Pilkington · 27-08-2010, 11:27

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

Barrie Yates · 27-08-2010, 11:46

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.

MargaretR · 27-08-2010, 12:23

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

Lost in Cornwall · 27-08-2010, 13:13

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.

tosh · 27-08-2010, 18:20

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

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.

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

waxy · 27-08-2010, 18:41

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Originally Posted by gdm27

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!!!)

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

jaysay · 27-08-2010, 18:43

[quote=katex;840708] Southerners were puzzled.

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Nout new there Kate

jaysay · 27-08-2010, 18:45

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Originally Posted by tosh

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

A nice pint of mild will get rid of that tosh

Gremlin · 27-08-2010, 18:48

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.

katex · 27-08-2010, 22:47

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

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

'Fake' ! ...

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

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

Margaret Pilkington · 28-08-2010, 06:51

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?

Margaret Pilkington · 28-08-2010, 06:52

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

MargaretR · 14-07-2011, 11:08

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

Margaret Pilkington · 14-07-2011, 11:33

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?