Vicks and Vaseline is all you need: See what happens when you mix them
Do you have all the over-the-counter medicine you need in your medicine cabinet? There’s probably a Vaseline jar among the small, dark blue jars that have been put away. Vicks Vapor Rub got ready to become the best thing to use when you have a stuffy nose again. This strong salve has helped people for more than a century.......CONTINUE READING THE ARTICLE FROM THE SOURCE>>>>>
The most interesting thing is that some of the information about the drug treatments was kept in those little jars.
My grandfather now has a lot of faith in Vicks. I remember when I was young seeing him try to help himself. He might sit down, put the salve on his chest, and look into a warm air space as he does it. He sometimes finds something to eat.
Vicks started with an ad in a catalog in 1890. James Vick makes his first appearance in Rochester, New York, first as a writer and then as a gardener. He sold seeds and had a successful business. He put out a catalog called Vick’s Seeds.
The catalog was bought by a local drugstore in Greensboro, North Carolina. The industrial agency is run by Dr. Vick, who is the brother-in-law of the pharmacist, and Lunsford Richardson. In those days, pharmacists put together treatment plans for their patients using both art and science. Richardson had made 21 home remedies by the time he started the Vicks Family Remedies Co. to make and sell them.
Richardson says he figured out the right drugs to treat his son’s “croupy cough.” It was first made into an ointment with menthol, which is a modern Japanese medicine, camphor, eucalyptus oil, and a herbal petroleum base. At the end, a salve is made that can be put on the chest.
Vicks had been used in certain ways and smelled in a certain way for a long time. It is put on the bottom of the feet to relieve pain from coughs and sore muscles. Some people put it on their temples to get rid of headaches, and others used it to get rid of nail fungus. Because animals didn’t like the smell, it was used to treat tick bites and keep mosquitoes away from clothing.
Richardson used a herbal oil base that was already on the market in 1872. After it was patented, it became known as Vaseline. The Greek words for water and oil make up this name. This new treatment was thought up by chemist Robert Chesebrough.
When Chesebrough first started working in the oil industry, he saw a worker scraping a waxy substance off the pump rods that brought oil from Pennsylvania oil fields. The worker told him that the items had been put together and then dishonestly thrown away. He said that if a worker got a small cut or wound, they would put this goo on it, and it would heal quickly.
After noticing this, it got his attention, and he left the arena carrying a big bucket of the black sludge. After ten years of trying different things, he was able to change the substance into a thin oil that didn’t change. Then, he used this oil to make a clear gel called Vaseline.
People were skeptical about Chesebrough’s claim that Vaseline could really heal wounds. Lastly, after getting a promise from the person who got the gel that they would use it on any cuts or burns they might have, he went around his New York neighborhood giving out small samples of the gel. Even though people went to stores to buy more, they couldn’t find any, he still got an award. At first, Chesebrough sold Vaseline for a penny per ounce. This is how the name “Vaseline” came about.
Vaseline and Vicks have been well-known for more than a hundred years. Chesebrough said that eating a spoonful of petroleum jelly every day was the reason he lived for 96 years. I don’t know if my grandfather also used Vaseline when he took Vicks.
