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Cod liver oil
Wayne Boatwright wrote:
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> On Tue 30 Mar 2010 04:50:38p, Arri London told us...
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> > Wayne Boatwright wrote:
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> >> On Mon 29 Mar 2010 09:14:16p, sf told us...
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> >> > On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:16:21 -0700, Arri London >
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> >> >> Just one per day. Don't think we were given a tbs of oil; that would
> >> >> have caused a war every morning! We did ask for the gel things but
> >> >> no go
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> >> > TY... I wish all those horse pills came in gel caps, they're so easy
> >> > to swallow!
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> >> My aunt routinely gave her 4 children a daily dose of liquid cod liver
> >> oil. While staying with them on vacation, she tried to force a spoonful
> >> down my throat. Being the spoiled brat that I was, I spat it back at
> >> her. She didn't try again. Godawful nasty stuff.
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> >> Coincidentally, back in the 1950s and earlier, it was customary for
> >> parents to routinely "purge" their children periodically, perhaps once
> >> a month. Products of choice usually included Black Draught Syrup, Dr.
> >> Caldwell's Syrup of Pepsin, and Fletcher's Castoria. Each, in that
> >> order, were progressively less offensive, although all tasted horrible
> >> and produced equally horrible cramping.
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> >> At some point my parents decided to stop using those liquids and turned
> >> to Bile Salts Tablets. They were less onorous to take, but the result
> >> was not too different. One saturday, as we were sitting down to a
> >> lunch of cream of potato soup, I found two Bile Salts Tablets lying
> >> conveniently next to my glass of milk. I said I was going to take
> >> them. My dad said that I would sit there until I did take them if it
> >> took all day. I tossed them into my bowl of soup. To my horror, they
> >> dissolved and my dad made me gag down the soup. I can barely look a
> >> bowl of potato soup in the face without reliving that experience. :-)
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> > You brought that on yourself mate! Should have just taken the tablets!
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> > Or you could have tried 'liver salts' instead 
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> Either way you look at it, you still feel "crappy" later. :-)
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LOL you do indeed!
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