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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2010 18:56:41 GMT
Those are two obscure brands of medical type ointments and antiseptics from the Deep South.
Did you/do you have any regional brands of medical items in which you believe? The multinationals have done everything their power to destroy these old brands and they have succeeded for the most part.
My father loved Pinoline (or was it Pinolin?) and used it just about every wound, abrasion, bite or burn. One of its ingredients was creosote. It seems to have disappeared.
Dr. Tichenor's still exists but it now calls itself a "mouthwash concentrate". For me, it is a fabulous antiseptic, mosquito relief, itch remedy and sore throat gargle. It is the most important item for me to bring back from any trip to Louisiana or Mississippi.
Do the rest of you have any great local curealls?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2010 21:31:29 GMT
Never heard of Pinoline,I will have to inquire about and get back to this. Dr. Tichenor's is some powerful.I remember the first time I used it and wasn't aware of how concentrated it was...jeez...I thought it was just a local brand of Listerine. Some pharmacies now sell it behind the counter,don't keep it on the shelves. One has to ask for it. Perhaps due to the high alcohol content .
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2010 22:04:16 GMT
Yes, it is supposed to be diluted 1/5 if you ingest it. When my parents were living in Florida, it was briefly available at their local Wal-Mart but then it disappeared. I had to make a trip to Mississippi to buy some more at Wal-Mart in Pascagoula or Ocean Springs.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 3, 2010 0:23:31 GMT
I well remember Dr. Tichenor's in the great old bottle. I think it was in everyones medicine cabinet. My grandmother told me that during Prohibition one old boy would sit out in front of the store all day, occasionally coming inside to buy some more Dr. Tichenor's and a Coca-Cola mixer. This ebay vendor was apparently hoping that no one would notice that a bottle with an "original 1883 label" would be unlikely to have a plastic screw top. Great pictures -- this is the label I remember: cgi.ebay.com.sg/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290407191847I knew the Dr. Tichenor's heiress. She was fecklessly being a real estate agent at the time, but retained a goofy Claudette Colbert rich girl charm. There were still bunches of patent medicines around when I was in my teens and maybe later. They all had Victorian-era graphics, etchings in black on a single-color background. I remember my grandfather swigging out a bottle that bore the image of a really ugly crying baby. I think that one was for upset stomach. I don't really remember Hadacol as it was pulled from the market when I was a tot, but I remember adults referring to it, plus for decades afterward, you could still find signs for it on buildings. Wonderful lyrics on this one!
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Post by lola on Jun 3, 2010 4:13:18 GMT
Great stories.
What about Prid? Or is that universal? It's supposed to draw the poison out of various kinds of bites, boils and stings, a compelling idea. I like it for the orange old fashioned looking tin.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2010 3:13:35 GMT
Love the Hadacol tribute!! Haven't heard of yours Lola. What about Goodies headache powder? Is that regional (seen all over the South but don't know it from anywhere else)? I believe it's got so much caffeine in it that people get addicted to that and use it even when they don't have a headache,or they get a headache from not using it . I've never used it myself,don't get headaches very often, and prefer aspirin.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 5, 2010 3:42:26 GMT
Lola, I remember drawing salves, & I looked up a picture of Prid, which seems vaguely familiar. Maybe we didn't need anything drawn (or quartered) in my family.
Goody's was a yellow envelope, wasn't it? As soon as I read it in your post, Casimira, I flashed on the blue and white BC envelopes. Take a powder! I think BC is just aspirin in powder form, but Goody's is more like Exedrin in powder form.
Is Carmex regional? I think it's made in Wisconsin. I swear by the stuff, which is sold for cold sores. I've never had a cold sore in my life, but Carmex is great for chapped lips and little bo-bos. I mourned when they started making the little pots out of plastic (but a good plastic, at least) instead of their trademark milk glass.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2010 11:09:03 GMT
Yes,Bixa Goody's is in a yellow envelope. I did some traveling with a woman who was positively hooked on it. Like clockwork every morning she emptied an envelope of it into her mouth (some mornings,two envelopes!!) positively bizarre,as was the whole road trip now that I think back on it. I'm not sure about Carmex,I've never seen it anywhere but here. It is wonderful stuff.
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Post by gertie on Aug 29, 2010 22:41:37 GMT
I remember the Carmex in the milk glass. When I was first starting working in an office as a young thing, all the secretaries had a jar in their desk. Good for dry hands from dealing with papers all the time, paper cuts, and a smudge on the fingertip made it easier to page through papers when searching for something. That stuff kept for ages if you didn't use it all up, too.
Some old remedies I think worked much better than what we have available to us to day. I get so tired of them treating the populace as infants. One you can I think still find is Husker's Oil, very good for severe dry skin, I recall my grandmother helping my great-grandmother put it on her skin to prevent bedsores after she had surgery on her hip. She laughed that the doctor asked her what she'd been using as my great-grandmother took a long time to get back to walking with a cane, and she never had a bedsore.
When I was an infant I had very severe diaper rash and my mother took me several times to the doctor, who gave me creams that made me scream in pain. A long story but just after the third try the doctor made, I was given into my grandmother's daily care. She kept me in a sink full of water with cornstarch as much as possible, and diapered me with cornstarch, too. The rash cleared right up in only a few days. If fell to my grandmother to take me to my next doctor check up, where my grandmother told the fellow she'd thrown out his creams because they pained me and used good old home remedy which had cleared me right up. The doctor first pooh-poohed such treatments, admonishing my grandmother in the strongest terms as to the danger and lack of success of old home remedies, saying of course they were the best people had had when she was young, but science knew better now. Then he went on to examine me. The doctor expressed great surprise I had nary a sign of the rash so quickly and asked her to tell him what she'd done, whereupon she stuck her nose in the air and told him if he was so smart, he should figure it out himself.
Another older product that is hard to find is tooth powder. My grandmother is in her 80s and has all her own teeth. She never had a cavity until the first time she used paste toothpaste with fluoride. She received a tube from her dentist sometime in the 70s who encouraged her to use this as it would be better for her teeth. When she returned for her next checkup, she had several small cavities. She threw the next tube he gave her in the trash and went back to her tooth powder, which she still insists on using today. She has told me they have complained bitterly about the mess in the bathroom now she is in a home but she refuses to change to the product she is sure was designed to make dentists more money by rotting your teeth.
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Post by Rita Daniels on Mar 21, 2016 23:48:32 GMT
Those are two obscure brands of medical type ointments and antiseptics from the Deep South. Did you/do you have any regional brands of medical items in which you believe? The multinationals have done everything their power to destroy these old brands and they have succeeded for the most part. My father loved Pinoline (or was it Pinolin?) and used it just about every wound, abrasion, bite or burn. One of its ingredients was creosote. It seems to have disappeared. Dr. Tichenor's still exists but it now calls itself a "mouthwash concentrate". For me, it is a fabulous antiseptic, mosquito relief, itch remedy and sore throat gargle. It is the most important item for me to bring back from any trip to Louisiana or Mississippi. Do the rest of you have any great local curealls?
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Post by Rita Daniels on Mar 21, 2016 23:51:18 GMT
I still have a bottle of Pinoline! Had it for years and only a little bit left but it does not lose its potency. I still use it!
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Post by htmb on Mar 26, 2016 21:05:49 GMT
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Post by chexbres on Mar 29, 2016 20:24:47 GMT
I remember "The Three Sixes" - the label read "666", which of course nobody said out loud, to avoid summoning Lucifer himself. I believe the liquid was black-ish, probably contained creosote and alcohol and was supposed to cure what ailed you.
When I was a child, I was given a clear, bright yellow tonic, for some reason or another. I loved the taste of it, but it was probably just cod liver oil in disguise.
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Post by cynthia on Mar 30, 2016 4:23:06 GMT
On one of the history podcasts I listen to, there was a discussion about early Florida, when many people lived in rural areas away from doctors, and the standard for anything that needed attention, internal or external, was turpentine, of which there was an ample supply in these piney woods. I think I would be instantly cured, rather than having to swallow a couple tablespoons of that.
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