Out-of -date conditions

I have collapsed metatarsal arches, but custom made inserts for my shoes prevent it becoming the painful problem it once was (like walking on a stony beach)

ninathenana - I used to love Andrews Liver Salts they were so fizzy!!

Haven't heard of Impetigo lately or Osteomyalitis which was pain in the bones of the leg and agony. I remember a child I knew having it.

Andrews Liver Salts was mums cure all.
I used to love the taste/fizz so much I would sneak some just for the sake of it

<lol> at that one!

No, soontobe, Beechams Powders have a wonderful, clovey flavour!

Does AlkaSeltze still exist, made you burp for Britain

Like the taste!
You have got to be kidding.
I cant even begin to describe what it tastes like. Powder scraped from a factory floor is the best I can come up with.

Indeed newist. My post should obviously have read 'my mother'

I always have Beecham's Powders in the medicine cupboard, they do seem to work - or it could just be that I like the taste!

KatyK thank goodness my DH didn't have smelling salts at that time, to cure my heart attack

Mym ther always used to have a bottle of 'smelling salts' in her apron pocket for use if ever she had a 'funny turn'. I was never sure what smelling salts were.

I still use beechams powder if I feel a cold coming on. It does seem to stop them for me, so long as I take 1 early enough.

I did use to have flat feet. Had to do foot exercises for it for years. I must have cured it, as I dont get any foot problems even if walked for miles.
I am always careful of changing shoes quite often though, so that my feet dont get sqaushed or whatever for any length of time. I am always mindful of my feet.

I've written before about my mother who had a "nervous breakdown" and she had "shock treatment".

I had a heart attack 10yr ago, My dear husband being an old fashioned bod thought I was having "a funny turn" whatever that may be

Haven't heard anyone complain of flat feet or fallen arches for years.

Gout is still common, Mrs.P suffers from it, and there is little available to cure it, only pain relief, which is not very effective.

How about gout?Probably exists but more treatable these days.
anyone remember the awful bottles of Fennings Fever Cure? also Bile Beans?
Beechams Powders?
Attacks of the vapours went out with 'stays' as did 'the Collywobbles.
You don't see teenagers or men with boils on their necks now either.

Yes, it's something that will never be out of date!

Plenty of people still 'swing the lead' even now, Falcon.

I can remember people saying that someone was "swinging the lead" and "playing the old soldier."

I also remember my dad saying that a neighbour should visit "a trick cyclist" by which he meant a psychiatrist.

Dad was also addicted to Dr. Collis Brown's. He used to send me to shop to buy it when I was about 9. The Chemist didn't hesitate in selling it to me despite the contents listed above in Grandma2213's post.

DH and I still have Dreaded Lurgies - it's our name for anything viral! In fact the whole family uses it

I don't think that migraine and hypochondria necessarily go together. I do not think I am a hypochondriac, I certainly haven't felt a need to go the doctor for at least the last 4 years, but you had better ask a member of my family.

DH had abdominal migraine and was admitted to great Ormond Street several times and went on to having dreadful migraines as an adult which fortunately have become far fewer in his 60s. Mind yu his mother and one f his brothers had migraine too and they are a bunch of hypochondriacs. I cant have anything without DH having it too - I sometimes makes something up to see if he gets it too - and he does!! good job we didn't have a baby together!!!

My mother told us we would get 'Lockjaw' if we came home dirty after playing in soil or dirt. I think it might be another name for Tetanus.

My dad called every illness we had 'The Dreaded Lurgy' which I believe was invented on the 'Goon Show'. He was a great fan!

The cure all for any stomach ailment, which my mother swore by, was Brown's Chlorodine. I googled this and found that it consisted of
a mixture of laudanum (an alcoholic solution of opium), tincture of cannabis, and chloroform. Mind you we had the same bottle for years - no sell by dates in those days. Who knows whether this made it stronger or weaker!

A carbuncle was a huge abcess with several 'heads' I understand - never actually saw one but the lady who lived opposite and I went to for piano lessons had one on her back and had the doctor and district nurse visiting for what seemed weeks. Took ages to heal afterwards I understand. My mother explained to me at the time what it was - I suppose now they are nipped in the bud with antibiotics.