Have Goose Grease Based Embrocations Fallen Out Of Fashion?

[sandyRoe]

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

[Mosaic]

A mature ex-teacher lady of my acquaintance recounts a time when children were well larded with said goose grease then sewn into their combinationf for t'winter.
Probably in early September, the location being east of Burnley.

[Alex_Higham]

All this talk about Goose Grease .....What about.. Andrews Liver Salt ..Carters Little Live Pills...Dr. Collis Brown's Chloridine, etc etc.

Pains in the back were relieved by covering the area with Brown Paper and then applying a heated iron: similar to...... https://www.google.com/search?q=Old+fashioned+Flat+Irons&complete=0&hl=en&site=webhp&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=zgqEUu_HA4KmhAekw4HoAQ&ved=0CEsQsAQ&biw=1333&bih=578#imgdii=_

[Canary42]

…. and rhino horn is good for erectile dysfunction LOL.

[sandyRoe]

Andrews Liver Salts were a fizzy starter to the day after a night on the drink. I doubt if they did the liver any good, though.

[sandyRoe]

You don't see many Rhinos taking Viagra or Cialis

[Canary42]

LOL

[Caran]

I remember goose grease on brown paper on my chest, reeking to high heaven going to school. Sander sons throat specific being painted on my tonsils with a brush and me throwing up all over mother.i had Carter's little pills as well. Fennings fever cure and what was the malt thingy we had?

[Mamyalynne]

Virol.

[Caran]

No. Cod liver oil and malt, I loved it, but I also loved virol.

[Caran]

I was a very sickly child, I had double pneumonia before I was three. So mum used every thing going to help me along.

[Caran]

I also remember potato poultices. A sock filled with mashed potato, wrapped around your ear for earache.

[tamborine]

Enos fruit salts that didnt taste of any fruit, was poured down my throat followed by cod liver oil, every night in boarding school.

Was it to cure or kill…it certainly gave me an aversion to all medicines