Do you remember

Energen not energetic fgs!

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

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

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

Zubes not Uzbeks what a weird autocorrect!

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

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

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

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

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

This one Pink?

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

My teenage perfume was Apple Blossom,Helena Rubenstein I think. Later on it was Aqua Manda, which you can still get.

My mother was a nurse and swore by Acriflavine. My father used Friars Balsam and a Kaolin poultice for his chronic bronchitis. I had forgotten about them until reading these posts.
Until recently I had an old Zubes tine full of pins from my late mum's sewing box.
Instead of Andrew's Liver salts, my mother used Jaaps liver salts. It was apparently very good for the "morning after" feeling. Of course that did not apply to me. .

When I had a terrible cough my late MIL who lived in Lowestoft got me a vicious bottle of cough linctus called Hayden's Mixture, pure evil, but did the trick!

Senna pods, mother used to make an infusion for us to drink on a Saturday night to keep us "regular". It was vile, and I'm afraid I always poured mine down the sink when she wasn't looking, but my very good sister always drank hers. Says that is why she has IBS now!! Remember Melrose, it was a small block of a greasy substance which we used to rub on dry, sore hands or knees. I remember my very first item for my "beauty" regime, Ann French Cleansing Lotion. Used to buy it in Woolworths on the way home from school with some of my pocket money, very grown up I thought.