Wright's coal tar vapourisers

They are not made any more and were considered potentially harmful.
They did work though.
It's a long time since people took their children with whooping cough down to the gas work to breath in the coal tar fumes.

They are two different things PRINTMISS. I wasn't suggesting otherwise

Sorry Indinana, I was just making a point, for those folk not familiar with either the vapourisor or the humidifier, not inferring that you were saying they were one and the same thing. The spoken word is so much easier sometimes!

My children where very very ill with croup doctors left them until they got worse my mum and dad brought me the old coal tar lamp and I put it on the landing an hour before bed on plate of water and it was that that cured them both before that both their Lil stomachs where sucking in and they had stridor in therror next day after using the lamp they where a lot better and when I run out of liquid if mine was that I'll again I would go and stand where I needed to xx

We had one and it was very effective. I loved the smell. Also I liked the smell of the coal delivery lorry. I would stand with my Mam breathing in the smell while she counted the bags in.

I remeber these, we had one for my eldest son who would suffer with his chest.Loved the smell it pervaded the whole house. Looking back i guess they were a huge fire risk really