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We called this ‘monkey blood’ in the boonies of Texas.

So many times that I used it as a kid😅

That's what I was going to say! (Also from the boonies of Texas! 😆)

Monkey blood!! My mom probably still has the vial in the junk drawer where all the medical supplies were kept.

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i wonder if my parents still have a bottle of this lol. i swear the bottle was from the 70's

Never heard of it. But I have experienced having gentian violet applied to a face wound in the 70's. Not sure what its medical qualities were but it was a potent dye.

I'm positive ours was...if not older 😂. I have older brothers and I'm not sure it was new when they were kids.

All due to the toxicological effects of mercury, Iodine gets the job done at this point

my mother never used that stuff. but i often would just walk around all day with a crusty graze. yeah, mercurochrome leaves an orangish color, where iodine is more of a brown. potassium dichromate is one of the prettiest, but kinda toxic oxidisers you can play with in chemistry. i used an image of it in a web dev project when i was in computer college in 2003:

usually it was just washed with soap and water, nothing more.

yeah, usually with me if it needed anything more (she was a nurse and knew her hygiene very well) than a clean, which it usually didn't, she'd clean it and then put on some "Savlon", gauze and micropore/bandage/whatever. my mother was probably a really good nurse. i'd probably make a good nurse too, except i've got zero needle phobia and quite high pain tolerance so i might not be as sympathetic to a crybaby lol