This morning I’ve mainly been working on outlines for The Dummy and researching Whooping Cough. I’m looking for early 20th Century “remedies” for the condition, and I’m not having a great deal of luck.
This is pretty much all I’ve been able to find so far. Anyone have any ideas they might like to share? I’m specifically looking for traditional and folk treatments from around 1915 or before, preferably ones that would have been used in the north-east of England.
In other news, The Realm of the Hungry Ghosts has now been sent off.
hows about this?
http://www.2020site.org/remedies/illness.html
scroll down the page and whooping cough is listed.
David Blaine is down – and he’s been cheating!
Hayley: thanks! That looks pretty useful… I don’t suppose I need to be too specific, but I’m a stickler for detail LOL.
David: what a jerk!
I loved the quotation about him not wanting to urinate on himself! So much for a test of endurance. (A bit like Scott heading to the South Pole and demanding that there’s a nice, clean, proper toilet waiting for him when he gets there!)
Mustard plaster–might have still been used… too lazy to research it though
Cheers, Evanne! I’ll check that out right away, lazybones