Slightly OT. Remember Methialade

next time wrap some electrical tape around it and get back to work.

 

I'm soon to be 36 and can remember the Monkey Blood very well. My Grandmother put that stuff on us kids no matter how big or small the cut or s****e. I also remember my Grandmother using that Tussin on us for everything else we had, from coughs and runny noses to congestive heart failure. Steven.

 

Has anyone else heard this?
My aunt's ex-husband told us that guys would coat a cigarette filter with the methialade and smoke it to avoid going to Viet Nam. He said that it showed up as spots on your lungs and they wouldn't take you.
He didn't do it, and ended up going and getting sprayed with agent orange anyway.

CRAB

 

All of the above....Too many "Chicken Littles" out there today...yes,the sky is falling.if you believe all our government tells you.I'm 76 and using monkey blood all my life..Never any bad results from any thing SamIam says either..best way to get sick is go to a hospital...where all the Bad **** is..My doctor told me years ago that I had cancer...B S....my eye doctor told me I had cataracs...B S too......Like I say I'm 76 and still have all my original teeth with NO cavaties,,,,go figure...........

 

My folks were big on using Iodine, which I'm guessing is either the same thing as or very close to that Methiolate / Mercurochrome ****. Either one would light your 8 year-old *** right up.

I got a big gash on my leg one time, the old man doctored me up with iodine cause that was all we had. I thought I heard it start sizzling or boiling up like peroxide - dad laughed and said " That roaring sound in your ears means you're about to p*** out".

LOL

 

You can still by Methiolate and I still use it at 65 as my prefered germ killer. Band-aid = chunk of paper towel and some black tape !!

 

My mother was a wonderful mom, but I've always wondered why she smiled so much when she painted my wounds with merthiolate. "Blow!! Blow!! You'll get over it!!"
I treasure the bottle of merthiolate I got from her estate.

 

I can smell it now - I remember the little "one use" packets in the machine shop floor first aid kit.

 

Nope our family was strictly iodine. Oh yea, first you had to wash the area with Fels Naptha soap, you know the smelly yellow stuff with Stoddard solvent as its active ingredient. If that wasn't enough if you got road rash from falling off the bike or flipping the go cart, Some Ronson lighter fluid got the tar cleaned off the edges.

I believe that I had no skin on knees and elbows from about 8 till 17.

Kid next door got to use Bactine what a weeney. ( weeney pre teen for wussy)

 

After using the merthiolate from the tiny brown gl*** bottle, (ow,ow, blow,blow) grandma would get a finger full of "salve", that nasty gooey brown stuff from a gl*** jar, and smear it on the cut. Usually no band aid, so you got brown salve on everything. Notice how back then everything came in gl*** containers, but now only the really nasty stuff does?

 

I think that was the first time my mom heard me swear. I truely wonder if she didn't do it on purpose sometimes.

Funny you bring this up I was just telling the youngsters at work about merthialate a couple of weeks ago I described it as a chunk of weld dropping on your skin. Good memories, not!!

 

Maybe it's just me but I kinda liked it...

 

That makes sense your from Arizona, it was just a dry heat.

 

You nailed it...every day was a trial by fire..Boy Scout camp-outs were boy gladiator, cliff climbing then cliff diving, hunting snakes at night in your underwear with a flashlight, smoking g****vines and little pyro conventions..Hell, before I was born my Father was a crop-duster, swimming in whatever was the killer pesticide of the day...

 

I remember that stuff but as i got older learned masking tape and electrical tape work the best.When i hurt myself real good i look at it a day later.

 

Great memories.....pretty traditional stuff. But, yes, it did sting like hell!

 

Haha! I thought "Monkey Blood" was a family thing. My grandad would work in the yard and come in and put it on any little knick he had. I remember using it too...remember the burn and the fact that it would stain you almost as long as it took for the cut to heal. Still have a vintage bottle of it in the medicine cabinet to this day.

 

Its a must have for any traditional period perfect first aid kit. haha!

 

My Mom used Iodine on us (three boys). We all survived.

 

It IS just you!

 

Anybody else ever heard of using Iodine to get a frozen bolt to move? Old guy (WWII era) told me about it; I never tried it. No idea what the chemistry might be, either.

 

I found a bottle of mercurochrome a few years back, probably the same bottle used on me as a kid. So what else do you do but try it??? That stuff flat out kicked *** on every modern product, just amazing performance for sealing cuts without infection. Then an uppity nurse girlfriend found out I was applying mercury to wounds and **** it was gone. Arg!! There is no modern equivalent!