Interpreters of Maladies

June 17, 2021 16:56

"People knew that for a sore throat you had to have Dulaler Tal Michhri or put a lump in water and give it to cranky babies. The moss green Antibactrin with its distinctive smell was for boils. Caladryl for bee stings. When kids scraped knees from climbing trees or took a fall from the cycle, applying Mercurochrome was a given. Another person recalled how till the late 1980s little girls went to school for months with scarlet earlobes '" that was Mercurochrome with its antiseptic properties for the newly pierced lobes. Phitkiri or a lump of alum was used as an after-shave; again an antiseptic."

The Bengali fear of ailments and fondness for cures is legion. Riding a nostalgia shot calendar, heres a look the states wondrous medical heritage, writes Upala Sen for the Telegraph. Do read.

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