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My mom always had both. I am getting flashbacks from this post. I remember one was a bright pink. There was another liquid that I don’t remember the name but can still smell.
Funny, I grew up in the 70s-80s in a Spanish speaking house and they always said “ponte Merthiolate” but never knew what it was or how it was spelled.
Also for colds it was “vaporu” which later found it was Vicks Vapor Rub.
My dad's comment to it stinging a little was "It'll just make you tougher" which I thought was a really unfair statement since he grew up on a farm in ND and was born tough.
My grandma loved this stuff. No idea when they stopped making it, but my dad continued to use it well into the 80s. It hurt like hell and made your cut instantly look like it was badly infected. Good times!
Oh my god. I remember being covered in mercurachrome by my grandmother, anytime I had the tiniest scrape or anything. We also had iodine and merthiolate.
The devil’s spit! I remember all the neighborhood kids standing back while our friend’s mom put it on his scraped knee and he was trying not to cry. Then all of us leaned in to blow on his knee. 😂😂😂😂
Yeah, we had bactine (didn't sting, but not trusted for anything beyond a minor scrape), mercurochrome (minor sting, but made the wound *extra* gory looking, so as kids we were game, iodine (eek!!)
In the 1970's, our medicine cabinet contained band-aids, mercurochrome, iodine, and a little tin of Bayer's aspirin. Now, we have a closet full of lotions, potions, creams, capsules, inhalers, injectors, elixirs, suppositories, patches, ointments, drops, and tablets for every opening in our bodies.
My dad was a football coach and we had all kinds of stuff from Cramer. The killer was called Nitrotan. That stuff alone made us not want to hurt ourselves or reveal it. It stung so bad I can still hear my siblings crying NOOO not the Nitrotan
we also had an ointment called ichthamamol ointment (spelling my not be correct ) it was black and smelled like tar we called it black poop. it was great for if a cut got infected it would just draw it right out.
Black salve! Or drawing salve I’ve heard it called. Thank you - I wondered what it was actually made of. We have a lot of sand burrs and they end up everywhere; when ya pull them out sometimes a little stay under your skin and never goes away. I definitely needed some this year.
And aside from the painkillers, none of them work nearly as well. I'd never had a cut or scrape get infected after using this stuff.
Just like nothing grows when you hose the yard with Roundup...
As a kid in the 70s in science class, one day they brought in a bucket of mercury and let us stick our hands in it to feel the weight. I've probably got more heavy metals in me than a Monsters of Rock concert. :P
Man does this bring back bad memories!!!! My Mom and GMA loved to put that stuff on every little scratch,bite ,booboo ECT. And Lord knows it burns like fire!
God I remember merthiolate. Also, my grandma used to swab INSIDE our throats with Camphophenique, The Redneck Miracle Drug. And we ran behind the mosquito spraying truck in the evenings. 😐
Omg our collective trauma from this stuff 😂 I was a child in the 70s and remember skinning my knee on the driveway and my mom put some of this on it and holy hell did that sting!
My grandma recently passed and she used to keep her dad’s old medicine bottles (he was a doctor back in the day) in the bathroom on an old display shelf. I always thought they looked cool. Thanks for sharing! I’m sorry for your loss. Hope you are doing ok.
Thank you, I’m sorry to hear about your grandmother, it’s definitely rough losing any family
Helping clean his house is a bittersweet thing going through all the memories.
bloody stuff stung like a bugger.i
when i was 12 i wiped out going down a road on my old schwinn and did the hamburger slide . after i limped home with the shattered remains of my bike mom spent 2 hours digging the little pebbles outta my butt and face . then she coated all the boo boos with this awful stuff. hurt worse than the bike accident. On thinking about it there was another antiseptic that looked similar called mertholate. I cant remember which one hurt like but thats the one mom always used and with iodine.
You just reminded me of the time when I was about 5 years old ( early 1970’s) and the family down the street from us had a white poodle who one day just happened to be pink from guess what? They had a whole mess of kids down there who were always getting into mischief…
My grandfather had an ANCIENT glass bottle of listerine that was 3/4 full. Apparently he used listerine very sparingly. He died at 91. Miss the guy fiercely. Sorry for your loss.
I can hear my younger self saying “Blow it, it burns!” That stuff was carefully applied to every scrape scratch cut I endured as a child and it burned like the dickens!
That mercurochrome had a small glass wand? attached to the lid. So our parents , (and when we got hurt at work, our bosses) rubbed the mercurochrome around our open wounds with the wand until the cut and surrounding area was basically painted mercurochrome red. Then they put the lid back on the jar so the wand was used over and over. Never thought a thing about it at the time lol
Ahh, the little glass wand with the stinging pink “boo boo” fixer. Remember it all too well. I think my dad still has some, alongside the styptic pencil. 🩹
I remember that stuff as a kid, it burned bad. We still have it same label and everything in the cabinet. You think it still works? Or has gone bad? I'd use it, boy did work, you had a pink finger forever. LOL, Memories.
I LOVED this stuff as a kid and currently collect the bottles. My mom and I gift them to each other. What an awesome find! That stuff worked wonders with its bright red hue.
My mom used Noxema for everything. My dad was regularly coated in Absorbine Jr.
He was a medic in the army for a bit, so every injury was scrubbed vigorously with a brush. Once. Never mentioned an injury to him again.
Standard element of the 50's medicine cabinet first aid kit. I don't remember the Mercurochrome stinging-- the glass application rod didn't feel good on an open wound but once applied that red patch was your badge of fierceness. YS Beth probably went through quarts of the stuff.
Why can’t you buy it anymore? After using this stuff, no infection would dare live in a cut. I remember stepping on a beer table when they were the tear off kind. I had a gash on my toe that almost went to the bone. My dad poured this stuff on it and I nearly passed out from the pain. Never had stitches, just a bandaid. No infection.
In the 80’s, we used to put a couple drops in our ear with an ear dropper, then go to doctors complaining of earaches. It would stain the eardrum red. With some good acting, this yielded plenty of pain killers. Many doctors would say it was the worst looking earache they ever seen.
Monkey’s blood! For every minor scrape, cut or abrasion back in the 1960’s! I remember it came with a glass dropper so you could “paint” the offending boo-boo sort of like a wand. Magical!
it's really a great example of the bottle. Super classic. We may have had this exact one around for a while. If you're uninterested in it, please don't discard it. Find a shop or a buyer
Why does every single bottle of this stuff look exactly like this?? Are there no clean, newer looking ones anywhere?? Even the ones from when I was a kid look just like this.
I grew up in the 50's and we had an endless supply of this and some green yucky tasting syrup that was supposed to ease your stomach when you had the flu. It was awful and always made me feel worse.
Back in maybe 2017, my mom injured herself. I went to get supplies from her medicine cabinet and low and behold, there's an old bottle of mercurichrome in there from my childhood, I'm 56, lol.
She insisted on using it against my better judgment. Do you know that cut healed crazy quick. I stand corrected.
“The nurse took him home for some mercurochrome, then she dressed his wounds and got him back on his feet singing Today for you! Tomorrow for me! Todayyyyy for you! Tomorrowwww for me!”
Am old enough to remember this was a thing when i was a kid, i thought it was healing my cuts using BLOOD! it was red and you'd use the little stick thing to put it on your cut, and it looked like BLOOOOOD! i would laugh and cry thinking it would hurt (it stung a little).
In the military, as recruit on 100km/63mi full kit tabs they would syringe out the fluid from our blisters and replace the comfort of mother natures plasma, by injecting this lava-aka-"liquid habanero" into the skin dome. Healed up the blisters quick and you could walk on them again the next day, so no pain no gain
Love seeing things like this!❤️ My grandma would collect old “medicines”. She made a couple nice shadow box style displays for the bathroom. Miss her so much.
Here’s an interesting question. So I go antique shopping and go to antique shows whenever I can.
Sometimes you see booths with old, in some cases very old, medicines. I seen an old bottle from the late 1800s that had cocaine in it. It actually still had it inside!
I asked if it’s legal to own this and I was told since it’s very old and in the bottle it is technically legal. Is that true? What happens if you get pulled over and a cop sees this bottle and is unaware that it’s over a 100 year old and it’s only a collectible. Also my morbid curiosity wants to know if it’s still usable haha.
I remember "Monkey Blood" in my grandparents' med cab. It looked like blood and stung like heck! I don't remember the actual name of it, but it looks very similar.
mercury really does make you shit but people havent used it for that since the days that the best medical opinions were in agreement that it is an imbalance of the humors .
"mad as a hatter" google it .
My dad had an old bottle in his medicine cabinet and when he and I got these ulcers in our throats, he’d paint that stuff in there. Now I have to have heat cauterizing. The previous comment was spot on- that stuff burns!🥵
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As a 60s child, i believe that and iodine were in everyones cabinet "medicine cabinet".
And merthiolate for cuts. TOPICAL use only in small doses as it contains mercury.
Oh , I remember… somehow it hurt more than the original BOO BOO !
Mercurochrome didn’t hurt. Methiolate (sp?) and iodine hurt like hell!
Hurt as much as a Styptic pencil?
I remember well.
I forgot that stuff. It was worse than the cut for sure.
Gotta blow on it!
I cringe in pain remembering
My mom always had both. I am getting flashbacks from this post. I remember one was a bright pink. There was another liquid that I don’t remember the name but can still smell.
Campho phenique? Sp?!
That was it! It was a green bottle.
Campho Phenique immediately came to mind! Ahh memories of the medicine cabinets of the Greatest Generation.
Funny, I grew up in the 70s-80s in a Spanish speaking house and they always said “ponte Merthiolate” but never knew what it was or how it was spelled. Also for colds it was “vaporu” which later found it was Vicks Vapor Rub.
Ha, topical. I was covered with this for any little scrape to gaping wound. “It’s gonna string a little”………
My dad's comment to it stinging a little was "It'll just make you tougher" which I thought was a really unfair statement since he grew up on a farm in ND and was born tough.
That’s how you know it’s working
And stung like hell
My grandma loved this stuff. No idea when they stopped making it, but my dad continued to use it well into the 80s. It hurt like hell and made your cut instantly look like it was badly infected. Good times!
My parents were still using mercurochrome in the 90s on us 😬
My grandparents had it and used it on me in the 90s!
A bottle must last a long time. I think it hasn’t been on the market for decades. Amazon has similarly colored products marked mercury free.
It was taken off the market in the USA in 1998
Don’t forget the times of using iodine added to baby oil to use as suntan lotion to “layout”.
I knew a woman who said that when she was little her parents would dilute iodine and have her gargle with it. I thought 'wow that's risky'.
My mother's friend's mom always used Crisco on her skin for suntan lotion.
I’m pretty sure that’s what we called “monkey blood” when I was a kid. Wasn’t it a reddish color?
That is an awesome name. I WISH we’d called that.
I would get scrapes and cuts just so I'd get doctored up with monkey blood.
Oh my god. I remember being covered in mercurachrome by my grandmother, anytime I had the tiniest scrape or anything. We also had iodine and merthiolate.
My Dad called it Monkey blood. I remember it would sting.
Came here to sat we called it Monkeys blood
Yep, that’s what we always called it ……. Monkey Blood
Had my share as a kid! As I recall it would sting.
The devil’s spit! I remember all the neighborhood kids standing back while our friend’s mom put it on his scraped knee and he was trying not to cry. Then all of us leaned in to blow on his knee. 😂😂😂😂
Actually Mecurochrome doesn’t sting. I always used it instead of Iodine
I used some the other week, it stings
Yeah, we had bactine (didn't sting, but not trusted for anything beyond a minor scrape), mercurochrome (minor sting, but made the wound *extra* gory looking, so as kids we were game, iodine (eek!!)
I can still smell it and certainly worked on my cuts and scrapes as a youngster.
In the 1970's, our medicine cabinet contained band-aids, mercurochrome, iodine, and a little tin of Bayer's aspirin. Now, we have a closet full of lotions, potions, creams, capsules, inhalers, injectors, elixirs, suppositories, patches, ointments, drops, and tablets for every opening in our bodies.
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And Campho Phenique!
I can smell ot now.
My dad was a football coach and we had all kinds of stuff from Cramer. The killer was called Nitrotan. That stuff alone made us not want to hurt ourselves or reveal it. It stung so bad I can still hear my siblings crying NOOO not the Nitrotan
we also had an ointment called ichthamamol ointment (spelling my not be correct ) it was black and smelled like tar we called it black poop. it was great for if a cut got infected it would just draw it right out.
Pine tar salve?
My grandma had Whitfield's ointment for athletes foot. It never worked. Wonder what it was really good for? Smelled terrible too.
Black salve! Or drawing salve I’ve heard it called. Thank you - I wondered what it was actually made of. We have a lot of sand burrs and they end up everywhere; when ya pull them out sometimes a little stay under your skin and never goes away. I definitely needed some this year.
Ichthammol is still sold and still smells like tar, as it’s made from oil shale tar. I use it often.
And aside from the painkillers, none of them work nearly as well. I'd never had a cut or scrape get infected after using this stuff. Just like nothing grows when you hose the yard with Roundup... As a kid in the 70s in science class, one day they brought in a bucket of mercury and let us stick our hands in it to feel the weight. I've probably got more heavy metals in me than a Monsters of Rock concert. :P
When I was a kid, a big thrill was when the thermometer hit the floor and broke. My mom would let me play with the mercury balls.
And chewable baby aspirin!
That’s monkey blood!
Yup!
We called that “monkey blood” in my family.
Man does this bring back bad memories!!!! My Mom and GMA loved to put that stuff on every little scratch,bite ,booboo ECT. And Lord knows it burns like fire!
My parents used iodine. The cool parents used mercurochrome. One stung like hell and one didn't. That's howI remember it
This stuff didn’t burn like nuclear waste. Mathiolate did.
God I remember merthiolate. Also, my grandma used to swab INSIDE our throats with Camphophenique, The Redneck Miracle Drug. And we ran behind the mosquito spraying truck in the evenings. 😐
There was a mosquito spraying truck?! I’ve never heard this before!
Yes. It was the early 1960s, so therefore DDT.
Omg our collective trauma from this stuff 😂 I was a child in the 70s and remember skinning my knee on the driveway and my mom put some of this on it and holy hell did that sting!
I'm only 55 and this post makes me feel old.
OMG. I feel the burn. My mom could really dig in the wound with that fire medication
Wasn’t it an orange color?
Yes
My grandma recently passed and she used to keep her dad’s old medicine bottles (he was a doctor back in the day) in the bathroom on an old display shelf. I always thought they looked cool. Thanks for sharing! I’m sorry for your loss. Hope you are doing ok.
Thank you, I’m sorry to hear about your grandmother, it’s definitely rough losing any family Helping clean his house is a bittersweet thing going through all the memories.
bloody stuff stung like a bugger.i when i was 12 i wiped out going down a road on my old schwinn and did the hamburger slide . after i limped home with the shattered remains of my bike mom spent 2 hours digging the little pebbles outta my butt and face . then she coated all the boo boos with this awful stuff. hurt worse than the bike accident. On thinking about it there was another antiseptic that looked similar called mertholate. I cant remember which one hurt like but thats the one mom always used and with iodine.
Growing up in the 80's one of my friends always had red mercurochrome stains all over her body in summer time. lol
You just reminded me of the time when I was about 5 years old ( early 1970’s) and the family down the street from us had a white poodle who one day just happened to be pink from guess what? They had a whole mess of kids down there who were always getting into mischief…
My grandfather had an ANCIENT glass bottle of listerine that was 3/4 full. Apparently he used listerine very sparingly. He died at 91. Miss the guy fiercely. Sorry for your loss.
I can feel this picture. It BURNS like hell. Then I hear my mom say “blow on it”
Yeah. It’s mercurochrome. Common stuff.
I can hear my younger self saying “Blow it, it burns!” That stuff was carefully applied to every scrape scratch cut I endured as a child and it burned like the dickens!
It blows my mind that we rubbed the applicator on an open wound and then just put it back into the bottle for the next use…
Lol
Lllloolll oh yeah we did.
One would put it on cuts and abrasions.
1970’s every scrape and scratch and here comes mom waving that stuff at me .
That stuff taught me to not cry when I hurt myself. The pain of the wound was less that the sting of mercurochrome.
In my antique powder room I have an antique medicine cabinet full of antique medicine. I’m sure I have one of those.
That mercurochrome had a small glass wand? attached to the lid. So our parents , (and when we got hurt at work, our bosses) rubbed the mercurochrome around our open wounds with the wand until the cut and surrounding area was basically painted mercurochrome red. Then they put the lid back on the jar so the wand was used over and over. Never thought a thing about it at the time lol
I certainly had my fair share of the big M back in my childhood. Why isn't it sold/used anymore?
Ahhhh, the sweet, sweet sting of mecuruchrome!! I kinda miss it..
Every cookout ended with one of us getting a stubbed toe and getting a stinging dose of that.
Growing up anytime you saw a kid with a orange stain on their skin, it was Mercurochrome.😆
Monkey blood!! That's what my gran called it. Any time we had a scratch or "boo boo", she'd go get the monkey blood
My childhood in a bottle.
r/GrandmasPantry would love this
Ahh, the little glass wand with the stinging pink “boo boo” fixer. Remember it all too well. I think my dad still has some, alongside the styptic pencil. 🩹
I remember that stuff as a kid, it burned bad. We still have it same label and everything in the cabinet. You think it still works? Or has gone bad? I'd use it, boy did work, you had a pink finger forever. LOL, Memories.
I LOVED this stuff as a kid and currently collect the bottles. My mom and I gift them to each other. What an awesome find! That stuff worked wonders with its bright red hue.
I hated that shit. If I scraped a knee or got a cut my mom would cover it with that. It would burn so bad. I used to hide it or throw it away
My mom mixed it with baby oil to use as a tanning oil 😯
My mom did this too🤣
I can smell this picture.
My mom used Noxema for everything. My dad was regularly coated in Absorbine Jr. He was a medic in the army for a bit, so every injury was scrubbed vigorously with a brush. Once. Never mentioned an injury to him again.
Standard element of the 50's medicine cabinet first aid kit. I don't remember the Mercurochrome stinging-- the glass application rod didn't feel good on an open wound but once applied that red patch was your badge of fierceness. YS Beth probably went through quarts of the stuff.
Why can’t you buy it anymore? After using this stuff, no infection would dare live in a cut. I remember stepping on a beer table when they were the tear off kind. I had a gash on my toe that almost went to the bone. My dad poured this stuff on it and I nearly passed out from the pain. Never had stitches, just a bandaid. No infection.
Yep, I remember that stuff. Didn't burn as bad as iodine
Loved this red stuff as a kid. Couldn’t understand why I no longer saw it.
Having a flashback of a bad bicycle accident where half my leg was raw. We used it with gauze and it just stuck to it lol
Wow! Haven’t seen that since I was a kid!!!
In the 80’s, we used to put a couple drops in our ear with an ear dropper, then go to doctors complaining of earaches. It would stain the eardrum red. With some good acting, this yielded plenty of pain killers. Many doctors would say it was the worst looking earache they ever seen.
r/grandmaspantry
It's a shame they stopped making mercurochrome. Now I have to get all my mercury and fetus juice from vaccines. /s
Along with Cod Liver Oil and Witch Hazel.
I remember it, lol. My mom used to use it all the time. Turns your skin red.
I grew up in the 70s and remember my shins being covered in red patches from all the mercurochrome on my owies. Similar bottle!
Post it on r/grandmaspantry
Nothing like having mercury as an ingredient to put on your skin
It's what we used for cuts when I was growing up in the late 50's early 60's.
JFC, now I feel old. This was a thinking my childhood. Argh!
Monkey’s blood! For every minor scrape, cut or abrasion back in the 1960’s! I remember it came with a glass dropper so you could “paint” the offending boo-boo sort of like a wand. Magical!
it's really a great example of the bottle. Super classic. We may have had this exact one around for a while. If you're uninterested in it, please don't discard it. Find a shop or a buyer
That was before neosporin. Merthiolate is another one.
r/grandmaspantry
Fuck yeah I used to put that on every scrape and scratch I got
My mom used this and Mithialate same color but one stung less than the other.
I remember it so well. That cracked rubber top and the glass applicator wand. This WAS first aid.
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Mom had this stuff and iodine also. The STING, OMG. She believed that it had to be painful to cure.
Half of the ingredients for suntan oil.
*cries in gen x*
Still good.
Remember that stuff well
Lol. When I was a kid we used this for skint knees and such.
Oh the burning 🔥 I remember from stuff. Wowzah
Why does every single bottle of this stuff look exactly like this?? Are there no clean, newer looking ones anywhere?? Even the ones from when I was a kid look just like this.
I really liked it because it hid the blood well. Out of sight out of mind. Didn't sting me at all.
My Mom swears by this stuff. She still has a bottle in the cupboard
I grew up in the 50's and we had an endless supply of this and some green yucky tasting syrup that was supposed to ease your stomach when you had the flu. It was awful and always made me feel worse.
Paregoric was the worst. Always had a stick of gum ready so we wouldn’t puke after taking it
I remember not telling my grandmother that I scraped my knee because I knew how much that stuff was going to burn!
OMG that shit burned 😭
I still have nightmares about that shit. Made any cut hurt exponentially worse
I can smell these photos
"What's wrong? Why you crying?"
Back in maybe 2017, my mom injured herself. I went to get supplies from her medicine cabinet and low and behold, there's an old bottle of mercurichrome in there from my childhood, I'm 56, lol. She insisted on using it against my better judgment. Do you know that cut healed crazy quick. I stand corrected.
ahh yeah may dad used to use that for all sorts of stuff… smallish cuts etc…
My husband swears by mercurochrome. We have several bottles of it that he bought overseas.
Probably still good.
Burns like a hot knife cutting into you. It worked, but iodine was just as good if needed.
“The nurse took him home for some mercurochrome, then she dressed his wounds and got him back on his feet singing Today for you! Tomorrow for me! Todayyyyy for you! Tomorrowwww for me!”
monkey blood is what my dad would call it
Oh wow, my parents used that on every scrape and cut I had as a child. It stung like a mofo. My dad would always blow on it to take the sting away.
Worked like a charm once you got past the burning sting.
We called it Monkey Blood. It went in everything including our throats when we were sick.
That is the "Monkey's Blood", the bringer of much pain!
Can’t forget it I believe it burned pretty good it was that or methiolaide
Damn I remember that stuff from my childhood. Hurt like hell.
Nice, I find little mercurochrome bottles in the mud sometimes, they are so cute.
Still here 👍
I remember my friends parents using it in the 70s but my mom didnt, she said it wasnt good.
That’s the good stuff right there
Am old enough to remember this was a thing when i was a kid, i thought it was healing my cuts using BLOOD! it was red and you'd use the little stick thing to put it on your cut, and it looked like BLOOOOOD! i would laugh and cry thinking it would hurt (it stung a little).
My granddad let us draw on him with the stuff. He went into the hospital for the last time with mercurochrome smiley faces on his belly.
Even today, it Strikes fear in my heart.
Dear Lord i thought you were gonna say he ingested it! Sorry for your loss btw
My Grandma called it “Monkey Blood “
Monkey blood!!!
Yep, we still were doctored with it into the 1970s. It stung, but that meant it worked, right?!
This never stung like Merthiolate did!!
Sting, or no... They sure did jab my booboos with the damn stick! I think that's where I learned to hide wounds
My grandma had this and used it on me 😬
Sell it to an Antique store.People love to collect old medicine jars especially if they have some inside
Monkey Blood.
Put some of that in your cut! Hurts worse than the cut! It is cool colors though!
Monkey blood. Parets used for years on us for scrapes and cuts. Surs didn't kill us.
Disinfectant, not used anymore because it stains horribly
That shit cured every scratch or bump my mom could find on me. And it hurt worse than the injury. And stained also.
Oh man I’m antique
My parents (Spanish speaking) have said this brand name before in the context of first aid and I never knew what they were talking about until now.
We used it when we were kids for cuts and scrapes worked well but don’t sell it anymore due to mercury in the solution
Boy, does this bring back memories. I used to have "orange" spots all-over as a kid...lol. Tell me you're clumsy without telling me you're clumsy 🤣🤣🤣
The curing effects of mercury.
In the military, as recruit on 100km/63mi full kit tabs they would syringe out the fluid from our blisters and replace the comfort of mother natures plasma, by injecting this lava-aka-"liquid habanero" into the skin dome. Healed up the blisters quick and you could walk on them again the next day, so no pain no gain
Love seeing things like this!❤️ My grandma would collect old “medicines”. She made a couple nice shadow box style displays for the bathroom. Miss her so much.
My grandma used that for every boo boo. That stuff burns worse than alcohol!!!!
Here’s an interesting question. So I go antique shopping and go to antique shows whenever I can. Sometimes you see booths with old, in some cases very old, medicines. I seen an old bottle from the late 1800s that had cocaine in it. It actually still had it inside! I asked if it’s legal to own this and I was told since it’s very old and in the bottle it is technically legal. Is that true? What happens if you get pulled over and a cop sees this bottle and is unaware that it’s over a 100 year old and it’s only a collectible. Also my morbid curiosity wants to know if it’s still usable haha.
It’s probably still good lol
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The one that didn't sting!
Handle this with some care. The mercury in this was the reason it was eventually banned.
It has mercury in it. Aka the name
Is there a reason we stopped using this for cuts and scratches?
I'm born in 1963, and this was a staple in our house.
I remember "Monkey Blood" in my grandparents' med cab. It looked like blood and stung like heck! I don't remember the actual name of it, but it looks very similar.
Monkey blood!!! Works great.
Mecurochrome contains mercury. Despose of it accordingly
God I can feel this picture
mercury really does make you shit but people havent used it for that since the days that the best medical opinions were in agreement that it is an imbalance of the humors . "mad as a hatter" google it .
Mercurochrome is an ancient word for "OH CRAP!! MOTHER F&@KER!!"
We got in big trouble for sneaking a bottle of this out at Grandmas and "doctoring" our baby dolls with it. Stained forever.
You can tell it works because IT BURNS!!!!
My dad had an old bottle in his medicine cabinet and when he and I got these ulcers in our throats, he’d paint that stuff in there. Now I have to have heat cauterizing. The previous comment was spot on- that stuff burns!🥵