Anyone old enough to remember this?

[Norman Bernstein]

Or how about 'Merthiolate'?

[Todd Bradshaw]

Oh yeah. Mother's little helper. Generously slathered over any fresh cut or scrape.

[hokiefan]

Oh yeah, killed a germ or three with that stuff.

Bobby

[P-man]

Mom really should have bought it by the gallon.

[Garret]

My mom believed in either Bactine when I'd simply had an accident, or alcohol went I'd been stupid. I got a lot of alcohol on cuts & such....

[ccmanuals]

Yep and if that didn't work the standby was always this:

[hokiefan]

My mom believed in either Bactine when I'd simply had an accident, or alcohol went I'd been stupid. I got a lot of alcohol on cuts & such....

Around 5th grade I was whittling a neckerchief slide and stabbed the palm of my hand. Was taken to the ER where the nurse made me hold my hand in a pan of alcohol while we were waiting for the doctor. I quickly found is I kept my hand cupped just so, the wound was basically closed and it didn't hurt so bad. After a few minutes the nurse noticed this. So she took my hand and worked the cut open so the alcohol flowed in freely. Holy hell....

Cheers,

Bobby

[Phillip Allen]

yep

[Nanoose]

yup to the first, nope to the second

[Nicholas Scheuer]

Both "M's" as well as HP

[stewart711]

The 9 of us grandchildren would get cut on purpose just for the attention grandma's applications entailed.

[Robert W. Long]

My mom would use Mercuerochrome for the minor cuts and scrapes, Merthiolate for the average ones,
and Iodine for the serious ones that didn't call for stitches. As I remember it they stung in the order listed and I would beg for either one instead of iodine!

[Tom Montgomery]

OMG. My mother tortured me throughout my childhood with that stuff.

[Shang]

It would be difficult to explain exactly how this happened, but I once had a British commando dagger stuck through the palm of my hand. My friends were kind enough to hold me down while they poured vodka through my hand.

[hokiefan]

It would be difficult to explain exactly how this happened, but I once had a British commando dagger stuck through the palm of my hand. My friends were kind enough to hold me down while they poured vodka through my hand.

That reeks of "Hold my beer and watch this."

[Flying Orca]

'Course now we know those "treatments" kill tissue and retard healing. Irrigate with saline, hold it closed if necessary, and let it heal.

[Keith Wilson]

It would be difficult to explain exactly how this happened . . .

Did it have something to do with the fact that the vodka-as-antiseptic was ready to hand?

This was my parents' cure-all. It didn't turn you red, but it stank and stung.

[Meli]

I've got a bottle of macurechrome rolling round in the medicine cupboard gathering dust.
I'm not that old, stopped the kids from whinging over little scrapes

[John Smith]

Or how about 'Merthiolate'?

I remember it. Best thing ever for mosquito bites. Stung like hell for a few seconds, but the itch ended with the pain.

[Peter Kalshoven]

It would be difficult to explain exactly how this happened, but I once had a British commando dagger stuck through the palm of my hand. My friends were kind enough to hold me down while they poured vodka through my hand.

Frankly, this sounds like it would need an entire EBS dedicated to the explanation. You would just have to make sure that there were no commando daggers used in the explanation...

[Dumah]

Dettol in our house

Cheers, Dumah,
Halifax, NS

[S.V. Airlie]

There were a few old faithfuls. The above and a dose of cod liver oil

[Jimmy W]

Merthiolate was the one of choice in my family. Had much of that stuff painted on me through the years.

[Shang]

That reeks of "Hold my beer and watch this."

Uhh...well, yes but...

[purri]

Most of them. Then there's phenol, Friar's Balsam and Icthymmol aka Black Ointment.

[Shang]

Uhh...well, yes but...

Okay, here's the game, do not pass this on to your children:
The participants sit in a circle and toss a knife (the British commander dagger works best) although I've played the game with an Arkansas Tooth-pick). The knife is tossed to the next player to one's right...blade-first'. If one catches the blade solidly, and and without flinching, it does not cut. If one flinches, then the carpet needs cleaning.
In the next round of the game, a bottle of vodka is passed around the circular...then the dagger...
You follow what happens next...

[Shang]

Double post.

[Gerarddm]

Hah, yes, owie!

Brioschi for upset tummy... sort of like an Italian cool lemon-tinted Alka Selzter noodle.

[Cuyahoga Chuck]

I was introduced to it in the Boy Scouts about 1950. At home we only had iodine.

[brad9798]

HAVE it in the medicine cabinet, Norm. Stings and WORKS like hell!!!!!

B

[skipper68]

Yas bunch of whooshes! I cut half my foot off at 8yrs old! Whiskey bath and a snotty handkerchief. Swimming in 10 minutes again!LOL!

[ChrisBen]

Youse guys were so lucky. If we got cut, we had a different kind of pain to look forward to. "You get any of that blood on anything and you'll get yer backside tanned"

[John Smith]

Merthiolate was the one of choice in my family. Had much of that stuff painted on me through the years.

It did leave its mark. I found the multiple red dots better than the itching of the mosquito bites.

[Jimmy W]

Growing up it the Mississippi delta, we had so many mosquito bites that I never knew of anybody putting Merthiolate on them. All exposed skin would have been dyed red. We just used it on cuts and scrapes.

[Domesticated_Mr. Know It All]

Yeah I was tortured with that stuff a few times.
I got to the point where I wouldn't tell anyone about my stupidity and just treated it myself with duct tape, paper towells and a squirt of Windex.

[varadero]

Dettol in our house

Cheers, Dumah,
Halifax, NS

Mother would just put a couple of cap-fulls in the bath, enough to turn the water milky, every bath night. Especially Saturdays after rugby.