Lion Ointment 60g

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However, please discuss with your primary health provider or pharmacist for proper advice or if you feel unwell or sick.

Years ago, the most popular drawing ointments contained ammonium bituminosulphonate, a peculiar chemical more popularly known as ichthammol. Towards the end of his life some of the houses he had build and let out had become very neglected, and were windowless.These were expensive, Miss Lydia E Pinkham’s (“Lily the Pink’s”) famous vegetable compound cost 4s 6d, a third of a week’s wage. Pharmacists also advise patients not to drink alcohol with medicines as alcohol intensifies drowsiness side-effects. Vin Urane Pesqui, old Bordeaux wine laced with uranium, was 8s a bottle and was claimed to cure diabetes. Personalized advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out.

However, the recipes are still made using an 18” square, thick, glass ‘ointment slab’ which is put to regular use to make the traditional remedies on site. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product. To clarify, my post wasn't intended as a general complaint, more curiosity as to why a lot of effective old potions no longer seem to be so readily available.

Seek advice before using if you are pregnant, planning to become pregnant, breastfeeding or if you suffer from allergies. Still concocting individual, bespoke remedies and a selection of tried and trusted, traditional creams and ointments no longer available in commercial High Street chemists, Reavley Chemist is able to cater for specific ailments drawing from a treasury of modern and ancient medicinal recipes. It is a thick yellow gunk that you apply to the wound and the cover with a piece of clean gauze or cotton. They were a response to the thousands of ads for medicines, mostly worthless but some harmful, that assailed the public from billboards, newspapers, magazines, buses, trams and railway stations. How many other reliable old remedies that pharmacists used to routinely provide are no longer widely available or available at all.

you are quite correct, all romance has gone out of medicine and it is becoming , not an exact, but almost an exact science.To learn about our use of cookies and how you can manage your cookie settings, please see our Cookie Policy. Lastly, do not self-medicate and increase your body's dependence to medicines without the advice of a doctor. This may have been a family trait as Edwin’s mother also put money way for a particular purpose and then forgot its existence. You'll notice that you can't edit the adjusted rating, we might not have looked at every last review and our user sampling isn't perfectly random.