[Vernster]

Originally Posted by BobandMary

Paregoric

I remember when I was about 6 years old going to the "drug store" to buy Paragoric for my mom. The pharmacist would bottle it in a small brown glass bottle sealed with a cork. Paragoric ( or tincture of Opium )was sold over the counter for years then with only signature and lastly by prescription only. A few years ago the FDA took it off the market altogether. What were they thinking? It was a good and necessary medication for many people. Myself included.
Neither Paragoric nor Quinine is available anywhere in North America.

[Bonny]

Originally Posted by Villages PL

Just as I thought, you also have reason to believe that a circle of friends is incompatible with living a healthy lifestyle.

What do women do when they get together? Hmmm! Do they eat pie, ice cream and drink coffee?

Yum, works for me !!

[Vernster]

Originally Posted by Villager Joyce

Since laughter is the best medicine and I have smiled and laughed at some of these memories, it is good medicine.

Thank you for your post. I laughed and loved it too. Some folks are way too serious.

[Vernster]

Originally Posted by Bonny

Let me see. Tonight I could sit home and have a wonderful healthy meal and a cup of green tea.
Um nope..... I'm meeting a group of really awesome friends at the outside bar at RJ Gators. I do believe we'll probably do what we always do, laugh a whole lot, drink, and share fried onion rings with that really good cajun sauce ! Then some of us will go later for may or may not be a totally healthy meal.

Sounds great ! My kind of night out.

[dbussone]

Originally Posted by Vernster

Sounds great ! My kind of night out.

But we all know you will practice moderation in all you eat and drink!

[Villages PL]

Originally Posted by Bonny

Yum, works for me !!

So you agree! That's what happens with a circle of friends. They get together to feed their junk-food addictions. (Cookies, donuts, cake, pie, ice cream etc.)

[Polar Bear]

Originally Posted by Villages PL

...a circle of friends is incompatible with living a healthy lifestyle...

If I thought that were actually true, I'd believe that you were very likely living proof.

[dbussone]

Originally Posted by Polar Bear

If I thought that were actually true, I'd believe that you were very likely living proof.

Polar - you said that in a kinder way than I could. If he actually believes half of what he says then it is a pitiful way to live.

[Shimpy]

Originally Posted by Vernster

I remember when I was about 6 years old going to the "drug store" to buy Paragoric for my mom. The pharmacist would bottle it in a small brown glass bottle sealed with a cork. Paragoric ( or tincture of Opium )was sold over the counter for years then with only signature and lastly by prescription only. A few years ago the FDA took it off the market altogether. What were they thinking? It was a good and necessary medication for many people. Myself included.
Neither Paragoric nor Quinine is available anywhere in North America.

I best remember it for rubbing a small quantity put on our finger to the baby's gums to give them relieve of teething pains.

[Bonny]

Originally Posted by Villages PL

So you agree! That's what happens with a circle of friends. They get together to feed their junk-food addictions. (Cookies, donuts, cake, pie, ice cream etc.)

Yep, see.... now you got it !

[Villages PL]

Originally Posted by Bonny

Yep, see.... now you got it !

Thank you, what I have is one honest person who finally admits it.

[Bonny]

Originally Posted by Villages PL

Thank you, what I have is one honest person who finally admits it.

[tcxr750]

Fletchers Castoria and Cod Liver Oil. As a kid, riding in the front seat of the family car before seatbelts and airbags.

[CFrance]

Sitting on my father's lap driving the car (shudder).

[jblum315]

Originally Posted by Shimpy

I best remember it for rubbing a small quantity put on our finger to the baby's gums to give them relieve of teething pains.

My mom who taught second grade in the 1930s said she began to wonder why many of the children were nodding off at their desks. Then she discovered that their mothers were giving them a teaspoon of paregoric in the morning to ensure that they would "behave" while in school. No ADHD diagnosis in those days