Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Chemical life
When I was young, the world was a wonderful place. The future looked bright. What's with all of the doomsaying nowadays?
Chloroflourocarbons weren't a problem. They were a great way to make refrigeration and spray out hairspray. Now what have we got? Gas was cheap, and cars were BIG. Now gas is expensive, and cars are still BIG!
I have fond memories of mom washing out cuts and scrapes with Phisohex, then treating it with tincture of merthiolate-and me screaming in pain the whole time. Say that: "Tincture of Merthiolate". What a great name. And it had that cool little bottle with a glass rod in it. And, of course, that fabulous pinkish brown stain that it left behind. Those were the days!
Isn't this great:
pHisoHex®
Antibacterial - Skin Cleanser
Description: pHisoHex is an antibacterial sudsing emulsion. It contains entsufon (sodium octylphenoxyethoxyethyl ether sulfonate), lanolin cholesterols, petrolatum and 3% hexachlorophene on a total weight basis. It is a colloidal dispersion of the active ingredients in a stable emulsion. Entsufon is a synthetic detergent which is effective in many kinds of water - hard or soft, cold or hot - and under acid as well as alkaline conditions.
merthiolate
Benzalkonium Cloride 0.13, Alcohol, Acetone
Anti-bacterial-killing all life forms that it comes in contact with.
Alcohol and Acetone-two great chemicals (both of which I believe have warnings on them not to use in contact with your skin)
But then it didn't matter. It worked, and you generally didn't get infected. Oh yeah, the wonder sweetener Cyclamate. (http://www.fangda.com.hk/english/) How come the rest of the world gets to use it, but the US doesn't? Sweet n Low has it elsewhere (even in Canada). Of course, Canada banned saccharine, while the US didn't. I don't know if they have it again or not. ummm, and PCB's.
In the sixties it seemed that non-prescription drugs were a mind-expanding thing. Now they're horrible death balls. Oh well, I never took drugs anyway. I miss all of those chemicals though. I miss the bright future. Things will brighten up. At least we still have nuclear power.
I feel happier now :>
Chloroflourocarbons weren't a problem. They were a great way to make refrigeration and spray out hairspray. Now what have we got? Gas was cheap, and cars were BIG. Now gas is expensive, and cars are still BIG!
I have fond memories of mom washing out cuts and scrapes with Phisohex, then treating it with tincture of merthiolate-and me screaming in pain the whole time. Say that: "Tincture of Merthiolate". What a great name. And it had that cool little bottle with a glass rod in it. And, of course, that fabulous pinkish brown stain that it left behind. Those were the days!
Isn't this great:
pHisoHex®
Antibacterial - Skin Cleanser
Description: pHisoHex is an antibacterial sudsing emulsion. It contains entsufon (sodium octylphenoxyethoxyethyl ether sulfonate), lanolin cholesterols, petrolatum and 3% hexachlorophene on a total weight basis. It is a colloidal dispersion of the active ingredients in a stable emulsion. Entsufon is a synthetic detergent which is effective in many kinds of water - hard or soft, cold or hot - and under acid as well as alkaline conditions.
merthiolate
Benzalkonium Cloride 0.13, Alcohol, Acetone
Anti-bacterial-killing all life forms that it comes in contact with.
Alcohol and Acetone-two great chemicals (both of which I believe have warnings on them not to use in contact with your skin)
But then it didn't matter. It worked, and you generally didn't get infected. Oh yeah, the wonder sweetener Cyclamate. (http://www.fangda.com.hk/english/) How come the rest of the world gets to use it, but the US doesn't? Sweet n Low has it elsewhere (even in Canada). Of course, Canada banned saccharine, while the US didn't. I don't know if they have it again or not. ummm, and PCB's.
In the sixties it seemed that non-prescription drugs were a mind-expanding thing. Now they're horrible death balls. Oh well, I never took drugs anyway. I miss all of those chemicals though. I miss the bright future. Things will brighten up. At least we still have nuclear power.
I feel happier now :>
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Is Merthiolate different from mecurichrome? I recall the latter being in a bottle with the glass rod applicator.
It's a funny thing, every generation seems to reflect on the simpler, easier to navigate through, good old days. So if you're somewhat enlightened you might think to yourself, "well, that's just an illusion". But I still think those days that you reference to WERE better.
It's a funny thing, every generation seems to reflect on the simpler, easier to navigate through, good old days. So if you're somewhat enlightened you might think to yourself, "well, that's just an illusion". But I still think those days that you reference to WERE better.
Yeah, Mercurochrome is different stuff. Maybe I'm mistaken about the the rod thing. Maybe they both had it. Mercurochrome has the wonder metal Mercury in it. I remember that stuff too. Maybe in my old age, my memory of painful and toxic drugs has fogged. I'm sure I had ample use of both-and other nasties as well. Iodine too. The nice part about having iodine in the house was the explosive use of the crystals (I think that's what they use in those little poppy tissue things they sell)
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