I'll just tell you what it is - tincture of merthiolate...anyone? anyone? This particular picture is circa 1950's and so well before my time but when I was a kid it still came in little glass bottles with the glass applicator attached to the cap. It burned like nobody's business and stained the skin almost as much as the black walnuts Heidi and I had to pick up out of the yard. Here's the kicker though, do you know what this stuff is?! Themerisol - reportedly the culprit in vaccine preservatives which is suspected of causing autism. Fortunately, it is no longer used in vaccines but hooo-ey! I think every mom I knew could fix anything with a bottle of that stuff and a band-aid. Raise your hand with the permanently orangy-pink-stained fingers if ya know what I'm talkin' about....
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ick! We used mercurichrome on everything--here's what's in it--a mercury salt! "organic, hydroxomercury disodium salt; used as a topical antiseptic. Called also mercurochrome" And it made you all nice and RED like Lucy Ball's hair.
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