The pain zone
Posted: May 18, 2011 Filed under: transport, treatments | Tags: Myzone, period pain, transport, treatments 1 CommentWhen you’re naming a new product or service (or a city’s transport ticketing system), it sometimes pays to do some research into the past. Cairns Post – 31 March 1932
There is no need to feel sensitive in asking for Myzone, for chemists also recommend it for migraine headache any time of the month.
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Colonial handy hint: a remedy for mosquito bites
Posted: March 6, 2011 Filed under: treatments | Tags: insect bites, mosquito bites, mosquitos, remedies, sal volatile, Trove Australia 1 CommentT. L. D.’s letter to the editor was published in the Sydney Morning Herald of 8 March 1844 with helpful information for newcomers to the colony. Take a feather…….
sal volatile – read smelling salts
yclept – Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable comes to the rescue again:
An old English word meaning called, named, styled. It is now only used in a sort of arch facetiousness that Fowler calls “Worn-out Humour”.
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