> Mom would take your temperature with the little glass thermometer,
Ha, got pissed at my mom for shoving the thermometer under my tongue really hard. I bit the thermometer until it broke. Spit out the glass and mercury on the floor and got my ass beat. Never went to the doctor, occasionally got ginger ale for it.
Everyone got something like that every year until high school. Strep?
How about worms? We kept little pills of Gentian Violet around for the pin worms, hook worms and round worms we'd get every summer playing in the dirt. Godammit they itched crawling around your anus.