Show Medicines Once I Chosen for Evil EvilS Smell S m e II Taste T a s t e I Health Commission Recalls Days of Sulphur and I Molasses and Like Remedies Back in the days daj's when men were men boys were also boys and medi cine was medicine Dr T T. B. B Beatty state slate health commissioner ruminated rumi ruml Frid Friday a 3 Now Nov take that good old fashioned blood cleaner that grandma used tomake to tomake tomake make sulphur and molasses Dr Beatty said There was VIas something to test the strength of the whole family If It the subject survived th the medicine was wa-s declared good and preparation was made for tor greater us use the next year ear FAMILY FAl RITE In the old od days giving sulphur and arid molasses was not only a a. duty buIt but bu It was 8 a sacred family rite with grandma leading the chant Th The young and healthy offspring usually the only member of or the family wh who had taken sufficient exercise during the winter to be In good health Inthe in inthe the spring was taken as the subject While father and the otest sister held his arms the two big brothers brother pinioned his feet to the floor mother mothe held his nose and grandma with althe al all the gravity ity and poise at her command com corn mand administered the medicine The lad survived consequently th the medicine must be good Then there was the class of or pea peo- peo pie who pinned faith in the old ba bag bagor of or hung around the nee neck as a n. preventive for smallpox I have hav never learned ned Just what the medical effect of oC this was but actually 1 it worked because a a. person with that tha smelly stuff around his neck was vas usually not permitted to come close clos enough to anyone el else e to catch th the disease We still sUll have ve folks with u us who prefer preter asafetida to vaccination and ond the wonder is that they are still stil with us w. PORK POULTICE Another good old remedy that has gone the way it should have gono gone i ithe Is the pork poultice for sore throat Many a p protesting child has had to ro tomake tomake make his way around his home o ohis or his city with a big chunk of or salt side tied firmly on each side of or his hi Adams Adam's apple Then we have ha the sure cure fo foan for tor toran an all earache an onion heated and then applied to the ear The application of or heat has its value but Just what wha part put the onion played is not quite clear in my mindIn mindIn mindIn mind In those good old days it wasn wasn't medicine unless It tasted U bad or smelled bad If a substance was found that smelled bad and tasted bad there was usually a place for i ion It Iton Iton on the family shelf sheU The usual vie vie- ilm W was the member of oC the family least able to defend himself The time was generally spring but any old time would do if Ir the concoction was WIlS Just potent enough s |