Whatever happened to Mercurochrome and Merthiolate? (1 Viewer)

[BHM]

I still remember with clarity when I tore up my knee and my mom cleaned out the gravel and cleaned it up with that stuff. Never told her about getting hurt again after that.

I think that was the reason for the stuff. If you run inside crying from a little scratch, you got the monkey blood. From that day on, your learned to never run inside crying again.

All I remember is screaming "Blow Daddy Blow"

That quote may come back and haunt you one day.

 

[Hawkeye Saint]

I think that was the reason for the stuff. If you run inside crying from a little scratch, you got the monkey blood. From that day on, your learned to never run inside crying again.



Originally Posted by Fiyo
All I remember is screaming "Blow Daddy Blow"


That quote may come back and haunt you one day.

yeah, like tomorrow.

 

[SWJJ]

my mom always offered to give me a reason to cry, then told me to rub some dirt on it and walk it off.

 

[MGC]

Vicks formula 44 with codeine.......good stuff. Made you forget you were sick.

 

[Goatman Saint]

I think that was the reason for the stuff. If you run inside crying from a little scratch, you got the monkey blood. From that day on, your learned to never run inside crying again.






That quote may come back and haunt you one day.

Yeah but that time I had blood in my shoe. But yeah I think it was just to stop kids from whining.

 

[FLIPPY]

My PawPaw would paint that stuff on himself when he had a cut. His only rule with it was to use a Q tip instead of the applicator because he didn't want anyone's germs left in the bottle. I guess he was ahead of his times.

 

[WhatDat]

I think what happened to them is that they have mercury in them. In kindergarten, we given mercury to play with. Now if someone in school breaks a thermometer, they close the school for a month for remediation.

My mother used mercurochrome, so we would go to my grandmother with our scrapes. She used sedum leaves. She would clean the scrape with peroxide to bubble off all the dirt and pebbles, then peel the membrane off the back of a sedum leaf and put it on with a band aid. I didn't know it was wierd until I went to school and everyone was asking me why I had a leaf under my band aid. I still keep a sedum plant for first aid. There is something in the the plant that helps the wound to heal quickly without getting infected, and the best part - it doesn't hurt.

 

[Sarcastic]

I think what happened to them is that they have mercury in them. In kindergarten, we given mercury to play with. Now if someone in school breaks a thermometer, they close the school for a month for remediation.

LOL...i had a teacher who, in a lesson about liquids and solids, broke a cheap thermometer and poured the mercury on the desktop. I vividly remember how cool it was to push the little beads around the desk with our bare hands.

I had forgotten about that until now

 

[SWJJ]

I think what happened to them is that they have mercury in them. In kindergarten, we given mercury to play with. Now if someone in school breaks a thermometer, they close the school for a month for remediation.

My mother used mercurochrome, so we would go to my grandmother with our scrapes. She used sedum leaves. She would clean the scrape with peroxide to bubble off all the dirt and pebbles, then peel the membrane off the back of a sedum leaf and put it on with a band aid. I didn't know it was wierd until I went to school and everyone was asking me why I had a leaf under my band aid. I still keep a sedum plant for first aid. There is something in the the plant that helps the wound to heal quickly without getting infected, and the best part - it doesn't hurt.

There are something like 400 species of sedums. Many have unique medicinal uses, but flavanoids common to many have anti-inflammatory/nociceptive properties.

But don't worry some pharmaceutical company will learn to derive the exact same compound chemically and sell it in a $4 tube of cream.

 

[justdave]

All the stock was acquired by the military to use on detainees at Guantanamo.

 

[gboudx]

I think what happened to them is that they have mercury in them. In kindergarten, we given mercury to play with. Now if someone in school breaks a thermometer, they close the school for a month for remediation.

My uncle used to fix gauges for the oil company he worked for and he had a bottle of mercury. Bottle was about the size of a Coke can, but must've weighed 5 pounds. We played with the mercury all the time. I even brought some home to play with and show off to my friends. I guess I'm doomed.

 

[Goatman Saint]

Same here. Dad had a coke bottle of the stuff. I was fascinated with it when I was a kid.

 

[PuddinheadSr]

Our school nurse used gentian violet, which as the name hints was the bright purple alternative to the others. Painted everything with the stuff. If you scraped your hand, you hand purple from elbow down. Kids would go in with a sore throat and come out with a purple tongue because she made then gargle with the stuff.

 

[Richard]

Apparently you can still get both without mercury in the US.

https://www.amazon.com/Sanvall-Mercurochrome-Oz-Sanar-Naturals/dp/B003IPOOOC

 

[LA_Steve]

My grandpa would wrap cotton on the end of a pencil and dip it w merthiolate to swab swollen tonsils. Tasted nasty.