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West Ender · 01-08-2006, 17:51

I still use Sanderson's Throat Specific, Gayle, if I have a sore throat. It's not bad if you like pepper and vinegar and it's very good for restoring a hoarse voice.

Does anyone remember Dr Collis Browne's mixture? I can remember having it for bad stomach upsets and I believe it contained morphine. It had rather a strange taste but you only needed a few drops to cure you so it came in a tiny bottle.

I was also given a "blood tonic" when I was about 14 and broke out in a crop of boils - other teenagers got spots, not me, just boils - 12 of them, one after the other. I don't think it was a proprietory brand, I have an idea it was made up by Snell's chemists in Church, but it tasted absolutely foul - like a mixture of dried blood and manure.

It cured the boils and, as I said, I never had a single spot!

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West Ender Passed away 25-11-09 Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Lymm, Cheshire Posts: 2,674 Blog Entries: 147 Liked: 2 times Rep Power: 193	Re: how sick were you when you were growing up? I still use Sanderson's Throat Specific, Gayle, if I have a sore throat. It's not bad if you like pepper and vinegar and it's very good for restoring a hoarse voice. Does anyone remember Dr Collis Browne's mixture? I can remember having it for bad stomach upsets and I believe it contained morphine. It had rather a strange taste but you only needed a few drops to cure you so it came in a tiny bottle. I was also given a "blood tonic" when I was about 14 and broke out in a crop of boils - other teenagers got spots, not me, just boils - 12 of them, one after the other. I don't think it was a proprietory brand, I have an idea it was made up by Snell's chemists in Church, but it tasted absolutely foul - like a mixture of dried blood and manure. It cured the boils and, as I said, I never had a single spot! __________________ * Some cinemas let the flying monkeys in............and some don't.