In a message dated 10/1/2009 3:02:46 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
Marshall Dudley wrote:
>> My dad was a pharmacist, and I can recall him mixing up boric acid
>> for eye drops many times back in the 50's. That was it seems
>> standard protocol for eye inflammations.
>>
>> Marshall
As a child I would get a sty on my eye & the Dr. would give Mom Boric
acid to use---I still have the little eye cup we used.. It was also prescribed
for me when I got ear infections....Used to get boils in my ears { which
my Grandmother said was from peeing in the middle of the road.} until an
old farmer told Dad to cut a bit of cork from a horses leg & boil it in a
small amount of vinegar & put it in my ears morning & night for 3 days...Never
to this day had another ear infection--- but I also do not have any wax
in my ears at all...... Lois
