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Whatever happened to the Carbuncle?

vivmagb · 2008-03-26 19:21:14

Does anyone remember the Carbuncle? (have I spelt it right?). I haven't heard of them for years, those great big angry red sores that you had to put a kaolin poltice on to draw them. I don't know what made me all of a sudeen think of them but they seemed to be pretty rife in the 50's and 60's, have they disappeared along…

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Unity Posts: 1,524 Forumite

11 April 2008 at 5:30PM

JackieO wrote: »

It seems weird now but I can remember my Mum saying that if you had chilblains then they had to be bathed in the contents of the gazunda.
and if you sat on wet grass then you would suffer from piles !!

Good heavens! I'm glad my mother's old statute of Wintergreen ointment worked then :eek: . I had terrible chilblains as a child, really painful - but then the winters were so much harsher then - remember '62?

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