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We could buy licorice in a stick. It as serrated like the big Tootsi Rolls were, and came in a cardboard box with no wrapper or cellophane. Used it for sore throat. It turned you mouth and tongue black.
If God wanted you to walk and carry things on your back, He would not have invented stirrups and pack saddles
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As a kid, my grandma used to make me drink a cup of warm water when I got up in the morning. I asked her why and she said it "kept you regular". I had no idea, at the time, what she was talking about, but knew I did not want to be not regular.
Turns out there is something to what she believed.
She also believed a draft would make you seriously ill, like pneumonia or something. It was no joy-ride to go in the car with her, in the summer, before air conditioning as the windows were not to opened as that caused a draft.
My grandpa was an embalmer 20 years before the advent of antibiotics, and a bigger germ freak never existed. He knew the true potential of untreatable infection and never got over it.
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Coal oil!!! (kerosene). several drops on a spoon of sugar for the croop. Or if you stepped on a "rusty" nail. Wound got a good washin' with same!
Oh yeah! Forgot. All kinds of crap from the "Watkin's" man. Yep. When coal oil's all you got, you use it. In addition to a few drips on the sugar, I'd get a coal oil rag wrapped around my neck when I went to bed. Fat meat on a boil to draw it out. A green pecan cut in half and rubbed on a ringworm. In winter, you just suffered thru it. A dip of Levi Garret on a red ant sting. [I still do that]
Never holler whoa or look back in a tight place
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Bear grease rubbed on bumps, bruises, arthritic joints...
Fried onions wrapped in a dish towel around your neck for sore throat/congestion/cough.
"There's more to optics than meets the eye."--anon
"...most of us would be better off losing half a pound around the waist than half a pound on our rifle."--dhg
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None that I was given. My maternal grandmother, Italian, drank a small glass of sweet vermouth and a raw egg nightly. This for 60+ years. She died at age 102.
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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If she had only started younger....
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tea made from mint...bay leaf ...and marijuana granny came straight off the boat from Greece
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petro-carbo salve, yukon jack on a cotton ball for tooth aches.
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Merthiolate - I dreaded the burn, but thought the red stain was cool. Castor oil - cured me of the mystery ailments that caused me to miss school too oft in 3rd grade. Salt Water - to this day, my dad thinks it will cure anything. Blue Star Ointment - tried it once to cure jock itch, but wished for death soon after.
John 3:36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
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