That is not so farfetched as it seems. In my mothers family in the 1920 they had whooping cough. One of the so called ways to stop the coughing was take a spoonful of sugar with a drop of kerosene in it, or eat a glob of vapo rub. With inteventions such as those, it's a wonder any of them survived. Nancy

I remember times when I was a child that my mother gave me a spoonful of sugar with a drop of kerosene. I didn't have whooping cough but did have a cold and cough. I've often thought about that kerosene but it was a common thing back then. When I had an earache that wouldn't stop, my grandfather would blow a pipeful of warm smoke into my ear. It always stopped the earache. My grandmother became an RN in 1918 and she often told us "cures". My dad, her only child, ate a large sweet onion every day as she said it'd give him pure red blood and keep him healthy. He lived until he was 84 yrs. old, never in the hospital until about the last year when he had a stroke. People thought he was about 60-65 yrs. old. juanita > That is not so farfetched as it seems. In my mothers family in the > 1920 they had whooping cough. One of the so called ways to stop the > coughing was take a spoonful of sugar with a drop of kerosene in it, > or eat a glob of vapo rub. With inteventions such as those, it's a > wonder any of them survived. > > Nancy > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message