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    Rodney, Remember the goose grease cure.
    My old mam was a great believer in it.
    Used to coat my chest with it, when any sign of a cold.
    The other cure. A used sock around my neck.
    No wonder I never had a girl friend.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dennis McGuckin View Post
    Rodney, Remember the goose grease cure.
    My old mam was a great believer in it.
    Used to coat my chest with it, when any sign of a cold.
    The other cure. A used sock around my neck.
    No wonder I never had a girl friend.
    al bet the local dogs followed you around tho.

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    Funny you say that Tony.
    Do you think it had a long lasting effect?

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    Best thing our dear Mum used on us was the Camphor Blocks made in a little Cloth Pouch and put around our Necks, it really did work wonders especially at Night! And the Vicks rubbed all over the Chest as well.
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    Have not seen Fisherman's Friends mentioned yet.

    Believe for a 100 years, the creation was merely confined to the fishing community of Fleetwood.

    It was later said that someone somewhere in the world is sucking on its most famous product.

    Keith.

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    Funny that Keith as my Wife has them in her Handbag all the time. They are good but very strong!
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    My mother would get a Swede, the vegetable type, hollow out the middle and fil it with brown sugar, used as a cough mixture.

    Cod Liver Oil tablets every day, are they still available I wonder, and concentrated orange juice mixed with water.
    Senna pods at night for my grandfather and Epson salts, after breakfast, which for some reason he always drank from a saucer mixed with some tea.
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    Quote Originally Posted by happy daze john in oz View Post
    My mother would get a Swede, the vegetable type, hollow out the middle and fil it with brown sugar, used as a cough mixture.

    Cod Liver Oil tablets every day, are they still available I wonder, and concentrated orange juice mixed with water.
    Senna pods at night for my grandfather and Epson salts, after breakfast, which for some reason he always drank from a saucer mixed with some tea.
    John, my grandfather always drank his tea from a saucer. Wonder how that started. I always thought it was to cool down the tea. However, it was not that hot by the time you got to the bottom?

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    Tony re #11
    I guess I was right then it did taste like iodine, I always thought my granny could read. Good job there was no Prep. H. in the house.

    Thanks for straightening that out for me.

    Cheers, Rodney

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    #4... John in Oz , believe sulphur was an old time so called remedy for one of the unmentionable diseases, sometimes called the French disease, they in turn call the English disease. Should have been called the Esperanto disease and have done with it. With a bit of charcoal and Saltpetre. You would have had gunpowder would have given you a bigger headache than alcohol. Cheers JS
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