Wright's coal tar vapourisers

gally I remember our dad taking us out when the steamroller was laying the tar as my brother always suffered with a bad chest we wpold all be put into the big pram and pushed around the streets inhaling the fumes.

Good lord! Lets think about that for a moment. Coal tar is a chemical product made from coal. So why would you want to inhale this stuff? I just looked it up and it can be incorporated into skin preparations. But inhaling?
There were a lot of patent medicines on the market that were harmful or downright dangerous. Maybe this was one of them?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_tar

I had one of those. I used it when the children had croup. It had a lovely smell! The late MrG's mother used to take him to inhale the tar vapours at roadworks when he had a cold - poor child! He should have been tucked up in bed.

I'm not sure about Wright's coal tar, but a huge range of vapourisers , including Vicks, is available. Thry are now safer and no longer use a nightlight – who wants the bedroom curtains going up in flames at three o'clock in the morning?

Print goodmorning I had one when DS had whopping cough, then various episodes of croup etc, he still suffers with his chest to this day, it was used alot but a friend borrowed it and I never got it back.