The pain zone

Posted: May 18, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: transport, treatments | Tags: , , , | 1 Comment

When 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.

Colonial handy hint: a remedy for mosquito bites

Posted: March 6, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: treatments | Tags: , , , , , | 1 Comment

T. 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”.