Do you remember

This one Pink?

www.feathergills.co.uk/products/old-fashioned-perfumes/californian-poppy-50ml/?review=read

What about Californian Poppy perfume. Brown and orange bottle thought it wonderful when a young teenager.

You can Sarah , it's on Amazon at £35 a bottle.

Can you still get 'Evening In Paris'.fragrance ?
Now that really shows my age.

You can still get vitapoint, I got some a while back after a perm went wrong. Still as good as it always was.

When we were children, my Mum swore by a cough mixture called Pulmo Bailey which was made tolerable only by dilution in warm water and the addition of a teaspoonful of brown sugar. A few years ago, I found that it was still available and, on reading the label, discovered that its efficacy depended on a substantial proportion of codeine!

All these "banned substances makes me wonder how we ever survived to tell the tale! I love the thought that Dr Collis Brown was good for everything from the runs to bronchitis and infertility! Amazing stuff!

My dad was the village pharmacist, so I grew up with free samples of Haliborange, Cod liver oil capsules, Kaolin et Morph, Malt capsules, and Angiers Junior Aspirin (a really comforting pain killer which tasted nice!) Then also had Minadex too. When my babies were tiny, my eldest had 6-month colic, for which Merbentyl Syrup was highly effective - now removed from the list.

Oh yes I loved Horlick tablets and the orange from the baby clinic. Remember adding a drop of brandy to it one Terrible night when my son would just not sleep, I drank it not him by the way.

Dr Collis Brown is still available, but tricky to find. Boots stock it, and I think it's available on line. No morphine nowadays, but it's great stuff for tummy upsets. It's a staple in my family's first aid box.

I can't zoom in to read the ingredients, they are probably all banned substances now. I do recall him giving some to a friend who later claimed it helped him and his wife conceive after trying for many years. I dread to think where he rubbed the balm!

PS Boots stocks Vitapoint. When I went on an overland camping trip to Morocco as a student my GP suggested Dr Collis Browne for tummy upsets. Edward Whymper used it on his men when climbing the Matterhorn in the late 1800s (or was it the Eiger?). It contained some very addictive ingredients but it worked when I had the runs. It also cured bronchitis etc, you just varied the dose according to what was wrong with you. My mother used to rub Algipan on my legs because I suffered dreadfully from 'growing pains' until my very late teens.

Any childhood injuries or gardening cuts, aches, pains, headaches, splinters,, anything he could rub it on he did! We smelled horrid after he had put it on though. He used to order it from the factory in Barnstable. Just googled it and a man from the area has written a novel called "Indian Balm" inspired by the stuff!
Just had a look at a site called picclicks.co.uk and found the image, there are loads of "vintage" packets and tins on there for a bit of nostalgia. My late dad would find it very amusing to see how much people pay for the old stuff.

When I did my teacher training one of the lecturers was talking about unfortunate names for children. He told us of one couple who had a daughter when they were getting on a bit and they called her Phyllis Ann!

What was it used for Storynanny ? Skin complaints or suchlike?

This is my dads favourite! He discovered it in the 1960's on a visit to Barnstaple where I think it was made, he claimed it cured everything.

Zubes not Uzbeks what a weird autocorrect!

No nothing like Uzbeks ( was there a jingle about Uzbeks good for the tubes?) opas were in a tin like this ( £5 on eBay!)

Good lord Maisie what effect did that have on the cat?

Malt extract fortified with codliver oil which was foul. I soon discovered that my cat loved it so he got the benefit!

Energen not energetic fgs!

I don't remember Opus Tablets storynanny were they anything like Zubes? I used to love Zubes!

I remember my sister subsisting on diet of Energetic Rolls and PLJ for weeks ! Never lost an ounce!

My dad used to have a tin of opas tablets on his bedside table ( for indigestion I think) I was a Saturday girl in boots for years and apparently he was the only person who ever bought them
He was also a fan of Indian balm, foul smelling stuff in a little round tin which he claimed could cure absolutely anything!

I remember them now! My Mum used to buy them too, ladling on the butter as well.