All of us, who remember.....

[airIam2worship]

Nope. Not at all like AD ointment. It is a whole lot better and stinks a whole lot worse.

It has been known for relieving athlete's foot, ringworm, toe itch, golf itch and other fungus skin irritations; also aids in removing soft corns and calluses. It was also used as a "drawing salve". If you had a splinter, thorn or piece of glass imbedded in you it would aid in drawing them back out.

I know just what you are referring to PR, it's a black stinky ointment that draws out not just splinters and things like that, but even poison. I was bitten by a spider (don't know what kind) on my thumb once and after an hour or so my arm was swollen and started looking real bad, then you could see where the poison was spreading all the way up my arm by looking at the veins in my arm, anyways I had no health insurance at the time and a neighbor bought over her ointment and put some on the bite, in less than 8 hours my arm was back to normal

[Soldier4Christ]

Yep that's the stuff. Although a bit harder to find it is still available today. I have a tin of it in my medicine cupboard.

[airIam2worship]

Yep that's the stuff. Although a bit harder to find it is still available today. I have a tin of it in my medicine cupboard.

Tell me the name of it again so I can try to buy it, might have to go to a mom and pop type of pharmacy to find it though.

[Soldier4Christ]

There are various different manufacturer names it goes under. I believe Watkins or Raliegh are the most common ones but what ever the brand name it is still known as carbolic salve. I remember finding it in a Stuckeys gas market along I-40 in 1987. It can also be purchased through various internet stores.

[Amorus]

I never heard of soaking the toothpicks in the cinnamon, but I did buy cinnamon flavored toothpicks.  I believe they have mint now as well.  My Mom use to yell at us when we had them cause she always thought we would choke on em!

[Amorus]

Here is one I remember as a kid that my Dad said worked for him to cure poison ivy, so he would use it on me when I played in the woods and would get covered with the stuff!
Fels Naptha Soap

[Soldier4Christ]

Fels Naptha Soap

Yep I remember that well, right along with Lysol and boric acid. If I stepped on a nail or something and had it imbeeded in my foot my mother would use concentrated liquid Lysol in a pan of really hot water as a soak. It would pull all the peices of sock and show leather out and disinfect the wound. It would also dry the wound from the inside out.

[nChrist]

    OK - I remember the cinnamon tooth-picks like it was yesterday, so you guys must have been in the TWILIGHT ZONE during the 50s. Nearly every drugstore sold cinnamon oil. If they didn't where you lived you must have been in a different dimension - possibly somewhere near the OUTER LIMITS of the TWILIGHT ZONE.   

[Shammu]

   OK - I remember the cinnamon tooth-picks like it was yesterday, so you guys must have been in the TWILIGHT ZONE during the 50s. Nearly every drugstore sold cinnamon oil. If they didn't where you lived you must have been in a different dimension - possibly somewhere near the OUTER LIMITS of the TWILIGHT ZONE.   

I was born in the late 50's, so I wouldn't remember.

But I do remember Nixon resigning.

[Soldier4Christ]

I remember the cinnamon oil but just not being used on toothpicks. Maybe that's because my folks didn't buy any toothpicks.

As for the Twilight Zone ....  I think that is where we are living today.   

[Shammu]

As for the Twilight Zone ....  I think that is where we are living today.   

Right on the edge brother, of the outer limits...............

[Kris777]

Yep I remember that well, right along with Lysol and boric acid. If I stepped on a nail or something and had it imbeeded in my foot my mother would use concentrated liquid Lysol in a pan of really hot water as a soak. It would pull all the peices of sock and show leather out and disinfect the wound. It would also dry the wound from the inside out.

Eekkk!! To much of a graphic image.  Made me cringe.  I think that is because I remember the time that me sister steped on a nail.  I never could figure out why but no matter how hurt she used to get she could still run all the way home.  Like there was even one time that she fell out of a tree, scraped her side and fractured her foot and she still ran home.

[Soldier4Christ]

Eekkk!! To much of a graphic image.  Made me cringe.  I think that is because I remember the time that me sister steped on a nail.  I never could figure out why but no matter how hurt she used to get she could still run all the way home.  Like there was even one time that she fell out of a tree, scruded her side and fractured her foot and she still ran home.

Sounds like me and my brothers. The pain from the injuries never set in until after I got home.

[Shammu]

How about the nasty taste of Castor oil??  YUCK!!

[Soldier4Christ]

My mother never made us take that nasty stuff. I do remember other medicines though. None of them tasted good like meds today do.