At 12:29 PM 1/16/98 -0800, you wrote: >On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, George Shirley wrote: > >> like being given turpentine mixed with sugar and lemon juice to sooth a >> cough and then, to polish off the kid, they would put a mustard plaster on >> your chest. > >My father was a great believer in Fletcher's Castoria. I learned to hide >most illness at an early age. ;-) > >Kay Lancaster kay@fern.com > I still haven't found anything better for a painful hangnail than to dip the finger in turpentine. My Grandma's remedy. Margaret