So interesting, my brother was born in 1944, when he was a year old he got pneumonia. I would have been close to four years old but I remember how sick he was. The doctor then made house calls and it was the first time anyone had used penicillin in our family. It was liquid, white and chalky looking and my brother hated it-they had to hold him down-I remember it to this day. We thought our parents were hurting him, holding his little arms and legs still and trying to get it in his mouth and swallowed- We were just talking about it the other day. It did make him better-but traumatized me and my sister! Now the flavor it etc. so children take things much easier. Back then meds were yukky!

We were talking about this the other day. We remember getting penicillin shots, not oral medication. I remember when I was about 8 or maybe even younger, my grandmother trying to get me to take milk of magnesia. It made me gag, and I spit it out. Grandma was not happy.... Lisa > -----Original Message----- > From: memory-lane-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:memory-lane- > bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Helen Ware > Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 1:52 PM > To: memory-lane@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ML] How far we have come > > So interesting, my brother was born in 1944, when he was a year old he > got pneumonia. I would have been close to four years old but I remember > how sick he was. The doctor then made house calls and it was the first > time anyone had used penicillin in our family. It was liquid, white > and chalky looking and my brother hated it-they had to hold him down-I > remember it to this day. > We thought our parents were hurting him, holding his little arms and > legs still and trying to get it in his mouth and swallowed- We were > just talking about it the other day. > It did make him better-but traumatized me and my sister! > Now the flavor it etc. so children take things much easier. > Back then meds were yukky!

When I was a youngster, penicillin was sold over the counter. My mom was a nurse and everytime one of us sneezed, Mom would get her needles out and give us a shot. We soon learned to not complain about a sore throat or anything that suggested we might have a cold. lol .. On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Lisa Lepore <lisa.lepore2@gmail.com> wrote: > We were talking about this the other day. We remember getting penicillin > shots, not oral > medication. > > I remember when I was about 8 or maybe even younger, my grandmother trying > to get me to take > milk of magnesia. It made me gag, and I spit it out. Grandma was not > happy.... > > Lisa > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: memory-lane-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:memory-lane- > > bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Helen Ware > > Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 1:52 PM > > To: memory-lane@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: [ML] How far we have come > > > > So interesting, my brother was born in 1944, when he was a year old he > > got pneumonia. I would have been close to four years old but I remember > > how sick he was. The doctor then made house calls and it was the first > > time anyone had used penicillin in our family. It was liquid, white > > and chalky looking and my brother hated it-they had to hold him down-I > > remember it to this day. > > We thought our parents were hurting him, holding his little arms and > > legs still and trying to get it in his mouth and swallowed- We were > > just talking about it the other day. > > It did make him better-but traumatized me and my sister! > > Now the flavor it etc. so children take things much easier. > > Back then meds were yukky! > > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

My mother LOVED Milk of Magnesia. My sister and I "went" every day or out came the blue glass bottle. To this day I gag just looking at the stuff. Once got into a tiff with a nurse who insisted I take it and I refused. She stamped out and said "I'm going to tell the doctor on you". It struck me as funny and I laughed and my stitches hurt. Isn't it funny how we remember something like that. Don't remember the rest of the incident, but it must have been resolved--I'm not still being held against my will! Grace On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Doug Crim <ddcrim@gmail.com> wrote: > When I was a youngster, penicillin was sold over the counter. My mom was a > nurse and everytime one of us sneezed, Mom would get her needles out and > give us a shot. We soon learned to not complain about a sore throat or > anything that suggested we might have a cold. lol .. > > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Lisa Lepore <lisa.lepore2@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > We were talking about this the other day. We remember getting penicillin > > shots, not oral > > medication. > > > > I remember when I was about 8 or maybe even younger, my grandmother > trying > > to get me to take > > milk of magnesia. It made me gag, and I spit it out. Grandma was not > > happy.... > > > > Lisa > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: memory-lane-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:memory-lane- > > > bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Helen Ware > > > Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 1:52 PM > > > To: memory-lane@rootsweb.com > > > Subject: Re: [ML] How far we have come > > > > > > So interesting, my brother was born in 1944, when he was a year old he > > > got pneumonia. I would have been close to four years old but I remember > > > how sick he was. The doctor then made house calls and it was the first > > > time anyone had used penicillin in our family. It was liquid, white > > > and chalky looking and my brother hated it-they had to hold him down-I > > > remember it to this day. > > > We thought our parents were hurting him, holding his little arms and > > > legs still and trying to get it in his mouth and swallowed- We were > > > just talking about it the other day. > > > It did make him better-but traumatized me and my sister! > > > Now the flavor it etc. so children take things much easier. > > > Back then meds were yukky! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

My Mom gave us Cod Liver Oil-when she took out the brown medicine bottle we tried to get away from her! That is nasty stuff! After you saying the penicillin was injected-I wonder if it was sulpher my brother had to take for pneumonia and over the years we mis-remembered it as penicillin? It was a white liquid and he fought like a wildman it was so disgusting! Did they give sulpher drugs back then for pneumonia? Mom is 92 and she may just think it was the other one!

My mother said my grandmother gave her cod liver oil every day when she was small. She hated it of course, and would try to run away. Sulpha was the precurser to penicillin. The first antibiotic. Penicillin didn't come about until WWII, so people were probably still using sulpha until the penicillin was manufactured regularly. I don't know when penicillin replaced sulpa. Lisa > -----Original Message----- > From: memory-lane-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:memory-lane- > bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Helen Ware > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 10:32 AM > To: memory-lane@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ML] How far we have come > > My Mom gave us Cod Liver Oil-when she took out the brown medicine > bottle we tried to get away from her! That is nasty stuff! > After you saying the penicillin was injected-I wonder if it was sulpher > my brother had to take for pneumonia and over the years we mis- > remembered it as penicillin? It was a white liquid and he fought like a > wildman it was so disgusting! Did they give sulpher drugs back then > for pneumonia? Mom is 92 and she may just think it was the other one! >

I remember Castor Oil.. for everything!  I was never sick after a few doses of that. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Crim" <ddcrim@gmail.com> To: "memory-lane" <memory-lane@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 7:41:29 AM Subject: Re: [ML] How far we have come When I was a youngster, penicillin was sold over the counter.  My mom was a nurse and everytime one of us sneezed, Mom would get her needles out and give us a shot.  We soon learned to not complain about a sore throat or anything that suggested we might have a cold.  lol .. On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Lisa Lepore <lisa.lepore2@gmail.com> wrote: > We were talking about this the other day.  We remember getting penicillin > shots, not oral > medication. > > I remember when I was about 8 or maybe even younger, my grandmother trying > to get me to take > milk of magnesia.  It made me gag, and I spit it out.  Grandma was not > happy.... > > Lisa > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: memory-lane-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:memory-lane- > > bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Helen Ware > > Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 1:52 PM > > To: memory-lane@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: [ML] How far we have come > > > > So interesting, my brother was born in 1944, when he was a year old he > > got pneumonia. I would have been close to four years old but I remember > > how sick he was. The doctor then made house calls  and it was the first > > time anyone had  used penicillin in our family.  It was liquid, white > > and chalky looking and my brother hated it-they had to hold him down-I > > remember it to this day. > > We thought our parents were hurting him, holding his little arms and > > legs still and trying to get it in his mouth and swallowed- We were > > just talking about it the other day. > > It did make him better-but traumatized me and my sister! > > Now the flavor it etc. so children take things much easier. > > Back then meds were yukky! > > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >   http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

We had a doctor who made house calls if we were really sick. Lisa > -----Original Message----- > From: memory-lane-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:memory-lane- > bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Doug Crim > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 8:41 AM > To: memory-lane > Subject: Re: [ML] How far we have come > > When I was a youngster, penicillin was sold over the counter. My mom > was a nurse and everytime one of us sneezed, Mom would get her needles > out and give us a shot. We soon learned to not complain about a sore > throat or anything that suggested we might have a cold. lol .. > > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Lisa Lepore <lisa.lepore2@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > We were talking about this the other day. We remember getting > > penicillin shots, not oral medication. > > > > I remember when I was about 8 or maybe even younger, my grandmother > > trying to get me to take milk of magnesia. It made me gag, and I > spit > > it out. Grandma was not happy.... > > > > Lisa > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: memory-lane-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:memory-lane- > > > bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Helen Ware > > > Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 1:52 PM > > > To: memory-lane@rootsweb.com > > > Subject: Re: [ML] How far we have come > > > > > > So interesting, my brother was born in 1944, when he was a year old > > > he got pneumonia. I would have been close to four years old but I > > > remember how sick he was. The doctor then made house calls and it > > > was the first time anyone had used penicillin in our family. It > > > was liquid, white and chalky looking and my brother hated it-they > > > had to hold him down-I remember it to this day. > > > We thought our parents were hurting him, holding his little arms > and > > > legs still and trying to get it in his mouth and swallowed- We were > > > just talking about it the other day. > > > It did make him better-but traumatized me and my sister! > > > Now the flavor it etc. so children take things much easier. > > > Back then meds were yukky!