>>19553725 LB
>>19553725 LB
about drinking Kerosene
>I'll have to look into that
An old guy I worked with would say this to me all the time I had to look into it, I couldn't do it myself, I was kinda joking but not really.
The most popular "cure" (back in those days) was kerosene. If you stepped on a nail, you soaked your foot in kerosene. If you strained a muscle, you rubbed kerosene into the skin around the muscle. If you had a cold, you put a drop of kerosene in a spoonful of sugar and swallowed. Cuts and abrasions were rubbed with kerosene. Folks often did their own suturing on deeper cuts. Vaseline (or other jellied petroleum products) were put on burns.
If a person had a cold, poultices and hot packs were the treatment of choice. Hot towels with mustard, menthol, Bengay or eucalyptus oil were placed on the chest of the ill person. Sometimes lard, camphor, ether or even spirits of ammonia also were placed in the hot pack. Some of the more unusual poultices included fried onions and skunk fat. "Hot toddies" were part of the treatment plan, too. Hot toddies could be whiskey with lemon, whiskey with sugar, whiskey with salt, whiskey with honey and whiskey with cayenne pepper. Teetotalers used a mixture of cider vinegar and honey.
https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Kerosene-and-castor-oil-home-cures-were-once-7490340.php