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My Grandmother was a believer in Bactine. Ant bite, wasp sting, cut, burn, scrape, you name it, Bactine was the go to treatment. I still keep a bottle in the medicine cabinet.
I only DREAMED of Bactine. One scuffed knee or finger cut got the hellish Merthiolate.
That was the cure-all of my other Grandmother and my Mom took after her.
OK admin you are making my finger hurt — you have awakened 50 year old mercurochrome PTSD.
I always got a chuckle out of “keep out of reach of children” on that one. Yeah, ’cause us kids wanted to recreationally feel that god awful sting.
We called it merthiolate. Contained mercury, I think. In sixth grade they used to give us mercury to hold in the palm of our hand. Now if a mercury thermometer breaks in a school, they evacuate everybody and call in a hazmat team. We had a medical treatment called “walk it off!”. Cancer? Walk it off. Now we have this flu that only kills people who were already in hospice and schools are closed.
Hadn’t thought about Mercurochrome in decades. I wondered if it still exists so I checked and Amazon sells it for $13.43 for one ounce. It still exists! Haven’t heard of anyone using it since the 70s though.
One ‘red stuff’ burned and another didn’t….can’t remember which is which
Merthiolate was the one that burned like fuck……….
Tincture of benzoin was worse, it stung like hell but smelled like bananas. My dad used to slather that on me like he put oleomargarine on bread.
No kidding. Spray some Bactine on it.
Even at that the bottle of Merc was an antique one purchased in the 30’s.
Ozzie, very funny. Just noticed it.