Have just done what I always told my kids not to do .. i.e. walk about the house without shoes. 'Course got a blooming spell of something in my foot and after breaking off the end with tweezers have now resorted to the old trick of fishing about with a needle. Would send for daughter with her nursing experience, however, different with her family than she was with patients .. no local anaesthetics for me.
Got me thinking about some of the household cures had to suffer in the past to name but a few :-
1) Spells as above.
2) Styes/powkes (spelling) .. bathe in Bicarbonate of Soda to draw it then this Golden Eye Ointment stuff which made it look bigger cause of the shine.
3) Head lice, smelly Suleo .. seems though best way now is just to comb the buggers out.
4) Impetigo .. never had it but remember kids walking around with this purple stuff painted on their faces.
5) Thread worms .. Ah yes, the Creme de la Creme. Salt water put into this bulbous container that was pushed up your orifice .. maybe then they knew something about colonic irrigation.
Not old enough to have suffered string tied on door to extract tooth, but must be many more that you remember.
Now down to bone trying to get out this foreign body from foot.
