For colds we would drink butter milk a lot of orange juice and tea with lemon and honey, we also used Vicks salve ointment on our chests with flannel clothes over it.”
“For sore throats we gargled with salt water and got a lot of sleep, we also drank butter milk”
“For stomach aches we didn’t eat anything until they felt better and we would drink a little ginger ale”
" If we could we would eat saltines"
“We would only go to the doctors if we were dying. ”
“In the First World War every one in my family had small pox except my dad, we put rose bud ointment on are pox.”
“We also drank cold milk when could”
"For high fevers we took Aspirin, for bad headaches (migraines) we applied hot wet towel to the back of our necks.”
Update: 2003/01/28 04:26:31
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