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From: "Ken & Betty Rowland" <>
Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV-L] Re: TXREDRIV-D Digest V01 #15
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:20:34 -0600


Bacon fat on "risin's" to draw them to a head...I suppose the salt in
it helped?
Betty Rowland, Houston


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> From: Andrea Ramsay <>
> To:
> Subject: [TXREDRIV-L] Re: TXREDRIV-D Digest V01 #15
> Date: Thursday, January 11, 2001 8:56 AM
>
> Jim, I tried to think of Mentholatum. I knew there was something
else,
> besides Vicks, but for the life of me, I couldn't think what it was.
> Scratches got Mecurcrome (that's probably not the correct spelling;
it
> doesn't look right, but it's been a long time since I have seen it.),
> Merthiolate or Iodine. Tonsils got swabbed with Mecurcrome, I think.
> Yuck! Ringworm, which I was unfortunate to have one time, got
treated
> with Iodine. It was not unusual to see kids with red marks painted
on
> their skin. I'd forgotten the smoke in the ear for earache until you
> mentioned it. "Risin's" (small abscesses) and boils were treated
with
> Antiphlogestine (not at all sure of the spelling) covered with a
cloth,
> or with the lining from the inside of an eggshell, to draw the
> infection out. I don't know if that's what they used for the more
> serious "carbuncles", multi-headed abscesses, or not, as I never saw
one
> of those treated. Andrea Ramsay
>
>
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