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Old time cures and remedies of the Wild West
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Battenburg | Report | 28 Oct 2004 01:59 |
Just a couple of CURES from this site. ACNE Wash your face with a wet diaper COLIC Close the windows and doors of the babies room and have the father keep smoking a pipe or cigar. SORE EYES. Catch some bed bugs and crush them.Mix with salt and human milk.Rub in the eyes night and morning. STUTTERING Hit the person in the mouth with a chicken gizzard And we thought grannies cures were strange. |
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PennyDainty | Report | 28 Oct 2004 02:02 |
Well they'll either cure you or kill you Margaret! Christine |
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Pat | Report | 28 Oct 2004 02:11 |
Disgusting stuff, Blimey Christine wouldn't fancy telling anyone you had sore eyes? Speak clear and plain whatever you do you wouldnt want one of those b###dy gizzards thrown at your gob would you? LOL Thanks Margaret, can't say I enjoyed that though.. Pat x |
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PennyDainty | Report | 28 Oct 2004 02:16 |
Pat the amount of wet nappies my lot have gone through in their time, I could've cured Britian's teenagers of their spots! Christine |
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ChrisofWessex | Report | 28 Oct 2004 02:19 |
Chilblains - this works - bathe toes in your own urine. As a young lady in her twenties my daughter had tried every medication over the counter and from GP - had tried the snow rubbed on and in abolute desperation one day as she was in so much pain tried the remedy told to her by her future mother-in-law - bathed them 2 or 3 times and hasn't had a chilblain since. |
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John | Report | 28 Oct 2004 02:22 |
Old Wives certainly had their remedies and one wonders if the wives of today would use them. |
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PennyDainty | Report | 28 Oct 2004 02:23 |
Ooo Ann sounds horrible, but then I suppose anything toget rid of the pain of chilblains. BTW works for jelly fish stings too (saw that on Friends) Christine |