Medicines and medical recitation have come a prospicient manner in a relatively myopic time . Here are some items that have vanished from medication cabinets in the last few decades .
1. Mercurochrome
Most folks under the age of 30 have never heard of this topical antiseptic . But many of us Boomers begged mammy to daub our cuts and scrapes with the relatively painless merbromine in lieu of that nasty stinging Iodine . Sure it stained your flesh pinkish - red , but you could believably wear that temporarily as a battle scar . The U.S. Food and Drug Administration put very exacting restriction on the sale of Mercurochrome in 1998 and put forward that it was no longer look at to be a GRAS ( in general Recognized As Safe ) over - the - riposte ware . Many grandmothers scoff , " Since when ? ! I used that poppycock for year and none of my Thomas Kyd died ! " But more scientific nous accord that the Bachelor of Arts in Nursing was a wise and " about metre ! " determination , since the principal active ingredient in Mercurochrome is mercury .
2. Iodine
3. Mercury Thermometer
4. Castor Oil
Once upon a prison term a bottleful of vile - taste beaver oil was a staple in every medicine console . For some cause , mothers in the 1920s and ' thirty used it as a cure - all for any sorting of tummy ailment . In realness , the only circumstance castor vegetable oil is suited to regale is constipation , and even in that caseful doctors tend to discourage its consumption , as the results are often unpredictable and can leave in severe cramping and involuntary explosive bowel movements that last for hours .
5. TB Test
6. Disclosure Tablets
7. Fluoride
8. Eye Patch for Amblyopia
9. Nurse’s Cap
10. Head Mirror
11. Iron Lung
