My dad was a butcher and his hands were all scarred up from knife cuts. His "old fashioned" remedy...he was born in 1892...when he got a serious cut was to get a piece of waxed paper, put a couple tablespoons of sugar on it and moisten it with enough turpentine to make a paste, then apply paste to wound. It would heal up quickly with no infection, although it probably stung like a sumbitch on a fresh cut. Fortunately I didn't ever get a serious enough cut to get "treated".
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Back In My Day
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My dad was a butcher and his hands were all scarred up from knife cuts. His "old fashioned" remedy...he was born in 1892...when he got a serious cut was to get a piece of waxed paper, put a couple tablespoons of sugar on it and moisten it with enough turpentine to make a paste, then apply paste to wound. It would heal up quickly with no infection, although it probably stung like a sumbitch on a fresh cut. Fortunately I didn't ever get a serious enough cut to get "treated".
Then when we got a window mounted air conditioner, we were livin large...
Dad was born in 1911 and that’s what he and his brother and sisters did.
I remember kerosene lamps in 1943-1944 and even with those during blackouts we had to hang blankets and quilts over the windows and go outside to be sure no light could be seen.
Sorry, I prolly didnt do it right, but I didnt have any trouble with the tweezers, that is untill mom found out why the fues blew.
I used to sit and listen to Daddy a lot with those kind of stories all the time. Wish I could now but he passed in 1994 at age of 83.
Us kids had to be near death before medical help was used. Pets were a different story. They lived or died. No vet bills.
We couldn’t afford fancy flavored baby aspirin - pain, but more often than not, fever for us children, was managed by a Bayer aspirin and water melted in a spoon.
I’m convinced my brothers and I were the originators of the duck lip pose because of the extraordinary bitterness of this concoction.
To this day I can take a BC powder without water if need be.
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I’m convinced my brothers and I were the originators of the duck lip pose because of the extraordinary bitterness of this concoction.
To this day I can take a BC powder without water if need be.
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People ( and I mean smart educated people) don't believe me when I say we played mumbly peg at recess WITH THE POCKET KNIVES WE BROUGHT TO SCHOOL -
Course they don't know what recess is either.
What was "bad" and would get you a whipping was playing for "keeps" because that was gambling.
Gambling was bad, throwing dangerous weapons at each other was good -- different times all around.
