Fennings

[shillelagh]

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

[sm_counsell]

Originally Posted by steeljack

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.

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!!

[Margaret Pilkington]

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.

[shillelagh]

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

[Margaret Pilkington]

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

[shillelagh]

never had cod liver oil ....

[Margaret Pilkington]

ooooh, you lucky josser!

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

ooooh, you lucky josser!

Hell its a long time since I heard that saying Margaret

[IRENE BAINBRIDGE]

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

[claytonx]

Is Scotts Emulsion and Fennings Fever Cure still going

[MargaretR]

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

[claytonx]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

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

So my mother was, trying to poison me?

[Lost in Cornwall]

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

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by claytonx

So my mother was, trying to poison me?

She didn't do a very good job Roy

[claytonx]

Originally Posted by jaysay

She didn't do a very good job Roy

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.