Any of you remember Save the baby?

No, I don't think I ever came across Save the Baby, but we got dosed with a locally-made medicine called W.O.W. (Wonder of the World). Its main ingredients was oil of cajeput and, I think, either menthol or eucalyptus. It probably had eye of newt and toe of frog and possibly fillet of a fenny snake.....Macbeth's witches likely read the list of ingredients and were inspired.

It came in a little blue bottle and my mother kept it on hand at all times to do battle with whatever was ailing us. It would heal the lame and raise the dead. A drop or two of it on a spoonful of sugar would cut through croup like a hot knife through butter. She swore it saved our lives more than once.

To my dying day, I'll never forget the taste.....which was bad beyond belief. It left you with hours of burps that were evil.

But, I will admit, it was good for chest congestion.
 
Never heard of it either. I do remember Vicks , my mother used it on me , then she would wrap me so tightly in the sheet that .... I felt like a mummy.

But ..... as I recall, it worked !
 
Another old cough remedy was terpin hydrate (it had codeine in it). Man, that stuff was strong!

I think you can still get it but you have to get a prescription and go to a "compounding" pharmacy and have it made.

We used to pick up bottles of 2-2-2 Cough Syrup whenever we'd go over to Windsor, Canada from Detroit. It had a lot more codeine in it than was allowed in the U.S. That was the only over-the-counter stuff that would help with a "Detroit cough" in the winter. Anybody who's every lived in Detroit knows what a Detroit cough is.....
 
Marie5656 said:
Guess that was before my time. I do not recall it. Container reminds me of Vicks
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It looks like Vicks to me also in the blue container. We had it rubbed on our chests and were given a teaspoonful to eat which was ghastly but it didn't kill you. That part must be a myth cuz I'm still here.

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