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Liz Call
Idaho Falls, ID · 2 months ago
HOT

okay this might be way the hell off topic but you know that same iodine and mercuricome mom and dad used to put on us. that's what the methods are making methamphetamine out of these days LOL which one of them burned I know there was two of them iodine and mercuricome one of them burnt like hell

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Laquita Willingham
Dasher, GA · 2 months ago

Good old mercurochrome. The cure all for all cuts scrapes and abrasions. Nothing better except maybe methiolate or iodine if it got really bad. That stuff burned so bad you forgot you were hurt. 🙃🤣

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Gregory Cash
New Haven, CT · 5 hours ago

😆

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Reginald Adams
Houston, TX · 7 days ago

Appsulutly 🤣😂😅

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David Thomas
Spanaway, WA · 2 months ago

The arm would grow back too.

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Blue Dog
Evans, CO · 4 days ago

My family did horse absorbine. No Jr. about it.

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Jamie Kyzar Broussard
Walker, LA · 2 months ago

My mom DID. I nearly severed one of my toes when I was 5 years old. It was still attached to my foot by only 1/8th of an inch of skin. My dad held me down as my mom cleaned the wound, then doused it in mecuricrome. She then used DUCT TAPE to hold the toe in place. She dressed the wound 3 times a day with that awful stuff, but didn't remove the tape more than once a week. NEVER went to a doctor for it! I'm an old woman now. I still have that toe, believe it or not. It doesn't feel well or work well, mind you, but the toe somehow, against EVERY odd, survived... WILD...😳

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Georgia_Girl
Augusta, GA · a month ago

OOOOOH LAWD HOW I REMEMBER!!😆

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Chuck Whitman
a month ago

We weren’t allowed back in until the street lights came back on, looking all pathetic carrying our arm 😆😆

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Sean Noe
Charlottesville, VA · 14 days ago

Where’s the Vicks vapor rub?!?!? Heals and seals it all

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Starlight135
Midlothian, TX · 2 months ago

That syrup was like glue, how in the hell did people eat that crap, I would put honey on mine‼️🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Tymm Dawg
Hampton, VA · 2 months ago

💯💯

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justsaying
Presto, PA · 7 days ago

Democrats like to eat body parts

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Starlight135
Midlothian, TX · 2 months ago

So true 💯‼️

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Concerned Citizen
Pittsburgh, PA · 2 months ago

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Vivian Hunt
Burkesville, KY · a month ago

ahh, mercurachrome, the memories.

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gai_pharf
Blaine, MN · 2 months ago

That stuff would have you jumping double dutch.😆

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The Joker
Tomball, TX · 2 months ago

My grandmother always had one on hand because I had scratch all over Bike 🚲 ride, tree climbing, go fishing and crazy stuff that we kids in the 70 did all the time. I’m 73 and kids today are no match to us.

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Jack Heising
Hamilton, OH · a month ago

yep,cured everything

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Bea Hunstiger
Goodyear, AZ · 2 months ago

That was the 1950s and 1960s. In 1970 we already had Bactine. I remember that evil orange stuff though. Boomer

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Frank
Midland, TX · 9 days ago

IODINE !

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William Pauls
Phoenix, AZ · 25 days ago

I had this when I was kid

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Carol Grimes
Virginia Beach, VA · 5 days ago

For Sure. That stuff Burned so much U were jumping up and down and forgot about what was hurt in the first place!

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Zeeroe Fuxgyvn
Morgan Hill, CA · a month ago

Mercurochrome sting so bad that you forgot about the pain you initially had.

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Cheryl Haass
Cumberland, MD · a month ago

And that arm would have grown BACK! In a week!

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Sheila Hughes
Halethorpe, MD · a month ago

YUP!🤣🤣

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David
Beech Mountain, NC · 2 months ago

AND WE SURVIVED.

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Terri Decker
Hanford, CA · 2 months ago

Thanks mom! 😏👍🏼🤕

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Valerie Carr
The Colony, TX · 14 days ago

burned like fire but great stuff

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Kim Lyon
Valley Mills, TX · a month ago

lol that shit burned bad but did the Trick😆 poo

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Edward Whately
Rockton, PA · 2 months ago

Iodine burned like hell!!!

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Victoria Scott
Panama City, FL · 2 months ago

After she had boiled it out with hydrogen peroxide.

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Andrew Dereza
New York City, NY · 2 months ago

painful to look at!😂

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Steven Sapp
Parkersburg, WV · 5 days ago

yep

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Dave Manson
Saint Regis Falls, NY · 13 days ago

what happens when you put this in a car battery and crank it up? I've been told this was very explosive used by seals and berets in Nam as a calling card?

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BRAD IsHear
Columbia, MO · 9 days ago

we had a bottle that was as old as the sun & our mom never threw old meds out. Shocking we are still alive.

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Wesley Lynette Easter
Madison, NC · a month ago

You got that right!!!

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Mighty Fine Day
9 days ago

At least it made you turn your attention now to the supposed cure that stung worse than the original injury!

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Arthur Ranguette
Farmington, NH · 19 days ago

true story. I'm a survivor😆

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Tiffania Tucker
Toms River, NJ · 10 days ago

aahhhhh yes.....what about the cough syrup called Creomulsion....love that as a kid.

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N.O.Joe the 3rd
New Orleans, LA · 2 months ago

I still have some, got it out of great grannies medicine cabinet when she passed 14 years ago

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Barbara Dennis
Needles, CA · a month ago

They burned like hell on a scrape or cut . 😲

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Christine Stone
Portage, PA · 2 months ago

I wish they still made mecureochrome, iodine tincture and methiolade. One application was all that was required.

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marc smith
Anaheim, CA · 2 months ago

My grandma put some on my broken finger wrapped it and said give it a few days. (Fingers stiff now) 😕

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Shane Zimmerly
Los Angeles, CA · a month ago

burned alot worse than the cut ,plus you get your mercury supplement

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Harry Browning
Columbus, OH · 14 days ago

After applying the medicine, she would blow on the cut. Like I needed more germs on my wound.

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Denise Drake
Charlotte, NC · 4 days ago

😆😆😆😆

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BBB2024
2 months ago

It didn't burn I was always covered in that shit in the 60s and early 70s .. I was the dare devil kid lol

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James D. Wheeler
Baxter, MN · 7 days ago

I remember that shit stinging to high hell

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Annette Walker
Gary, IN · 5 hours ago

ALWAYS

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Diamond N Da Ruff
Shannon, NC · 17 hours ago

Merthiolate🥰

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Robert Schaub
White City, OR · a day ago

Man that would have burned something awful but back to playing!🤣

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Nessa
Grand Bay, AL · 2 days ago

oh crap that is torture I will never forget how it felt going into my skin.😳😣🤣🤣🤣

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Sharon Donald
Memphis, TN · 2 days ago

So true 😆😆👍👍

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St
Pittsburgh, PA · 2 days ago

Ain’t no fussin with the tussin

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Samantha Lee
Chicago, IL · 2 days ago

😆😆😆Amen

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Fr!Z-the∆rtis
The Bronx, NY · 3 days ago

I thought that was a Spanish thing guess not😆

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Natalene Smith
3 days ago

Sure would

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Inna
Pasadena, CA · 4 days ago

And popsicle sticks with electrical tape to keep it straight. 🙋🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

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C. Myers
Trenton, NJ · 4 days ago

Sure Did!! This is Hilarious 😂!!

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MIKE WOOD
Long Beach, CA · 4 days ago

😆😆😆😆😆

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American Me
Bakersfield, CA · 4 days ago

Fact…💯👊🏽

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WeekendWarrior
Pensacola, FL · 5 days ago

One time our family went to Huntington Beach in '76 or '77 for the 4th of July it was an all day through the night I met a bestfriend for the whole time we were there and how we met was my sister told me that a girl was laughing at me everytime I got up to play Frisbee or catch football i noticed her so I threw the football to her and when she got up to throw it back was when I noticed she had the same red stained knees and elbows as I had from mom putting iodine on me. I was 10 or 11 years old and we hung out all day till the fireworks set off at night It never occurred to me that I will never see her again I didn't think to ask her parents if I could have her phone number.

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Matthew Schulte
Devore Heights, CA · 5 days ago

yes and it stung and stained the area,, hell yeah get up and back to play 👍👍l love you Mom 👍👍

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Jinxycat
Houston, TX · 5 days ago

Worked like a charm and that medicated Vaseline brown jar

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Rudy L.
Tucson, AZ · 5 days ago

I still use it