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To: US Navy Vet

I remember my Day telling me they used kerosene on scrapes and cuts when he was a kid.


11 posted on 02/20/2014 11:59:55 AM PST by CodeJockey (Christian, Freeper, Tea Party Member, Bitter Clinger, Creepy White Cracker)
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To: CodeJockey

My mother had us kids swallow a little Vicks Vapor Rub when we had bad chest congestion, in addition to putting on the outside of the chest. I survived, but looking back, that may have been a bit overboard. LOL.


15 posted on 02/20/2014 12:08:14 PM PST by b4its2late (A Progressive is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: CodeJockey

kerosene on scrapes and cuts, it works had a many a cut treated that way.


48 posted on 02/20/2014 1:31:38 PM PST by piroque ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act")
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