Have Goose Grease Based Embrocations Fallen Out Of Fashion?

[sandyRoe]

I suppose they've gone the same way as medicinal leeches or 'bleeding'.

[anneasquith]

sandy, I believe leeches are still being used to treat wounds/ulcers, havent seen any bleeding for a while, and I believe urine tasting has long gone............. try vic :)

[sandyRoe]

Vic it is, then.
I hope I'm not the only one still continuing with the urine drinking. I have a steaming glass every morning and find it most refreshing. ;-)

[snags]

Your own or are you not that fussed?

[anneasquith]

now your ' taking the pi** sandy, :)

[sandyRoe]

I'm a firm believer in recycling. It's my own. :-)

[vakayu]

Hi again sandyroe,well you havepicked a good time of year for goose grease as you can buy jars of goose fat in shops for roast tatties?

[vakayu]

I suppose if you slapped some on your chest and roasted in oven you will be ready for Christmas lol.

[sandyRoe]

Do I half remember goose grease embrocations and wrapping the chest in brown paper, or is that a figment of my fevered imagination?

[stewey]

Also, soap-suds enemas are not longer used to rectify a certain condition.

[sandyRoe]

The actor, Sir Laurence Olivier, must have been a fan of those. What else could explain his famous show-stopping spoonerism on the stage of the Old Vic? He meant to say: 'I shall fill her soul with hope'.

[stewey]

I would imagine, sandy, that resulted in an explosive outpouring of withheld laughter.

[Alex_Higham]

http://health.howstuffworks.com/medicine/modern-treatments/leeches-in-modern-medicine.htm

[Prudie]

When I started teaching in a very rural secondary school in Kent in the 80s I was told by staff that had been there a while that only about 10 years previously had certain local families stopped sending their kids to school sewn up for the winter in goose fat and brown paper. No word of a lie.

[sandyRoe]

I knew I hadn't dreamed up the brown paper business. That's probably why I have such an aversion to it.
TY, Prudie, for jogging my memory.

[carolegif]

My mother always dreaded the goose grease and brown paper treatment, plus the lump of camphor hung round her neck!

[Old_Geezer]

You should wrap your chest in brown paper, complete with string, put on a stamp, address it properly, including the post code, then you can send it with confidence.

[mrs_overall]

My Nan was a great believer in rubbish old wives tales like this. I was once staying with her and she doused my head in vinegar to allegedly stop me catching nits.
Life was not easy smelling like a walking chip shop

[stewey]

OG, don't forget to use the red sealing wax.

[sandyRoe]

Mrs O, be thankful for small mercies. At least you weren't wrapped in newspapers. Then you might have looked as though you were going to a fancy dress party as a fish supper. :-)

[stewey]

And I bet the boys thought you were a bit of a take away.