Re: [Cz-L] Bathing salts sold in Czernowitz

Schmiedt and Fontin also sold some toys. My uncle bought me there a mouse
which could be wound up and would start to run. His wife, my aunt Aditta,
had a pathological fear of mice and he used me as an excuse to give his wife
a fright. Although I must have been 4 or 5 years old, I still remember
vividly her heart-rendering shriek when she saw the toy mouse run through
the room...

Essigsaure Tonerde was a general remedy against most anything. Mostly
against swellings, rheumatic pains, my mother claimed it would cure a cold
as well. However I don't remember whether one drank it against colds, all I
remember is that the Tonerde was spread on a large piece of cloth or cotton
and then placed on wherever the pain was.
Lucca

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From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>; <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 7:53 PM
Subject: [Cz-L] Bathing salts sold in Czernowitz

Hardy has added a copy of a newspaper advertisement for "Schmiedt and
Fontin" on Picasa Web Albums. Even though I do not remember this shop,
I was curious to see what they sold. Among others they sold the following
bathing salts:

Schwefelbäder (sulfur-bath), Eisenkugeln (balls of iron), Soda (I do not
know whether washing soda or baking soda), Eichenrinden (oak bark),
Meersalz (sea salt), Fichtennadeln (Fir tree needles), Badeextrakt (Bathing
extract), Franzensbäder (?), Eismoorsalz (?) etc.

Does anyone know or remember any of these additions to bathing water?
As my mother told me, I was a premature baby and because this was before
the use of incubators, they placed bottles of hot water around me. One
bottled opened, the hot water spilled on me and burned me. Because
antibiotics had as yet not been invented, I had to be bathed twice a day;
once in a weak solution of potassium hypermanganate and once in water in
which had been soaked a cloth bag of wheat-bran. Well - I survived.

I also remember the use of something called "Essig saure Ton-Erde".
I do not know what it was used for, but I liked the name and remember it.

Mimi

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