{"id":2338,"date":"2012-11-09T03:07:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T09:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.keloland.com\/lund\/?p=2338"},"modified":"2023-07-20T21:00:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T21:00:06","slug":"medicine-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/medicine-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicine Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

What\u2019s in your medicine cabinet? Do you ever wonder if guests peek in yours when they excuse themselves to the bathroom? Have YOU ever sneaked a peek in someone else\u2019s?<\/p>\n

I remember a Seinfeld episode when Jerry couldn\u2019t resist looking in his new girlfriend\u2019s medicine chest and discovered a tube of fungicide there. Even though he really liked the girl, he stopped seeing her fearing she had an STD. It turns out the medicine was for the woman\u2019s cat.<\/p>\n

This past week, Linda was going through the medicine chest at her late mother\u2019s house and discovered a couple of old bottles; one containing Witch Hazel and the other Hydrogen Peroxide..<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"memories\"memories\u00a0These were apparently staples in most American households. Hydrogen Peroxide was used for everything from mouthwash to a disinfectant for cleaning. Witch Hazel is for treating skin ailments, from acne to razor burn. It\u2019s also supposedly good for bruises, sores and swelling. I just remember the distinct and not totally unpleasant aroma coming from the faces of men after a close shave before church.<\/p>\n

Someone this week also brought up how everyone used to have a little bottle of Mercurochrome in their medicine chest. I know we certainly did when I was a child.<\/p>\n

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It was also a topical antiseptic for use on cuts, scrapes and minor burns. So how was it different from Witch Hazel and Hydrogen Peroxide? Well, it didn\u2019t sting when mom used that little glass wand to daub the reddish liquid on your injury. It turns out that Mercurochrome fell out of favor some years ago after the FDA raised questions about its effectiveness.<\/p>\n

I got to thinking about the stuff we had in the medicine cabinet when I was growing up and suddenly, images stored in the back of my memory banks rushed into view. Thanks to Google,\u00a0 I\u2019m able to give you a glimpse inside the Lund bathroom in the\u00a0fifties and\u00a0early sixties.\u00a0 Wait, that doesn’t sound right. Oh well,\u00a0I’ll bet lots of these items look familiar to you too. Below is what our cabinet looked like:<\/p>\n

\"It

It came from the factory with flourecent tubes on each side but they were pretty expensive to replace. So when we had a burnout..mom would just use a regular 60 watt bulb.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Dad

Dad used this old razor for a time with a shaving mug, brush and soap.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Dad

Dad also used his Sunbeam Shavemaster but it wasn't until he got a Norelco that he went totally electric.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Perhaps

Perhaps constant exposure to this Norelco TV commercial during the Christmas season was the reason. It showed old St. Nick gliding over the snow atop a Norelco razor with its three "floating heads." Odd that the bearded Santa would be the spokesman for electric shavers.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"This

This was dad's after shave of choice. I still like the smell. My brothers and I were and are all pretty fair skinned and really didn't require regular shaving until long after we'd left home.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"We

We all had big piles of hair, though and went through gallons of this stuff.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"When

When the wet head look was dead, I switched to this stuff.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Once

Once we saw that Crest had "flouristan" our family was sold.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"We

We boys also went through plenty of this stuff. I think it was more effective at hiding zits than getting rid of them.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Mom

Mom thought gargling this awful tasting stuff was just the ticket for sore throats and bad breath. We eventually talked her into buying Scope.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Certainly

Certainly no medicine cabinet then or now would be complete with out the trusty bottle of Vicks Vapo Rub. Magic stuff.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"There

There was usually just one bottle of shampoo for all of us. Maybe it was best at cleaning all that Brylcreem out of our hair.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"There

There was also a jar of this in our cabinet. I just assumed it was only used for chapped lips. But I guess it had other applications.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"A

A Sunday morning ritual; swabbing our shoes with this stuff. I don't think it was leather's best friend but did "kote" those scuffs.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"These

These probably wern't in our medicine cabinet but there was always a bottle of it in the house and it always required removing that scab of dried glue from the rubber applicator tip before use.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Did

Did you ever wonder what became of Absorbine Senior?<\/p><\/div>\n

\"We

We had a bottle of Bayer in the medicine chest but there was always a tin of tablets in there too..I suppose for when we traveled.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"These

These were both in there at times. I remember insisting we get the Curad colored ones.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0Well, that’s most of what I remember.<\/p>\n

I could have snapped a photo so you could see inside Linda and my medicine cabinet..but she’d kill me if I did. I guess\u00a0you’ll just have to\u00a0come over for a visit and sneak a peek for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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