In a message dated 11/18/2002 1:04:52 AM Mountain Standard Time, NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > Your right, I forgot about using it on the kid's gum's > Gee -- we used Anbesol on our kids' gums. It did seem to work pretty well. And as for those "times of the month" -- (sorry, Diesel and Jack, to bore you on this subject) our school nurse in junior high had a bottle of green tablets called "Edrisal," or something like that, for menstrual cramps and other "time-of-the-month" discomforts. She'd hand them out when girls came in either using the euphemisms of the day or complaining of cramps or headache or nausea or stuff like that, provided it was related to that little female complaint. Often there would be boys in the nurse's office when one of the girls came in with those problems, and I can still remember when a boy came in with some minor abdominal discomfort. When the nurse offered him some essence of peppermint, or something on that line, he said, "Give me one of those little green pills. They cure anything!" To my extreme embarrassment (I was a helper in the nurse's office at the time), the nurse, Mrs. Garris (remember her, Kittie?), explained to the boy just what those pills were for. When the boy had gone and I protested about her going into detail about the pills, she simply said, "If they don't know about that now, they never will." Doris (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr