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

Mimi,

Bath additives like oak bark, fir tree and pine tree needles, sea
salt, etc. are readily available today in Chernivtsi pharmacies and
"Russian" stores worldwide. Oak bark, for example, has a strong
bactericidal, anti-inflammatory, and antiperspirant activity.

Potassium permanganate is an excellent and very safe (if diluted
properly) antiseptic, still used in many countries. It is listed in
the United States Pharmacopeia, but banned for medical use (probably
because of risk at high concentrations and explosiveness).

Iosif

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu> wrote:
> 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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