Thread: Take Vincent's with confidence for quick three-way relief

Brings back memories of other patent nostrums such as APC powders.... 'Aspirin, phenaticin and caffeine' (?)

- One of the original.."Mother's Little Helpers"

Anyone remember BEX, along with the advice of taking one with a cuppa and having "...a good lie-down".

I remember the local barber at the little place I grew up in would regularly have a Bex & Coke (the soft drink) I can still remember the look on his face as he folded the paper in to a V pattern to slide the contents down his throat.
Steve

I've got a little glass medicine cabinet that I rescued from a load of rubbish heading for the tip. One of the bottles in it is a similar concoction to laudanum.
Don.

Bought singularly, Vincents cost 3d, compared to Bex which cost 1d.
What would that Vincents be worth today and would you be considered a drug dealer if you sold it?

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Bought singularly, Vincents cost 3d, compared to Bex which cost 1d.
What would that Vincents be worth today and would you be considered a drug dealer if you sold it?

Old fart,,

A good party trick was to roll the Vincent APC paper into a tube and blow the powder into the air and lite it up with a match or lighter , it blew out a big highly combustible flame about 3 ft long ( "Done with great care of course" ) . I showed this trick to my Mother in Law and she never took another Vincent ever again .

Originally Posted by Fatso

A good party trick was to roll the Vincent APC paper into a tube and blow the powder into the air and lite it up with a match or lighter , it blew out a big highly combustible flame about 3 ft long ( "Done with great care of course" ) . I showed this trick to my Mother in Law and she never took another Vincent ever again .

Yep - we used to undergo regular searches of our belongings at one boarding school I attended to make sure that we had no Vincents (or Bex) in our possession after certain people were caught igniting Vincents powders in the classrooms.

Of course - I would never have been involved in such antics ...................

On a slightly related note, I found about 8 glass phials, or ampoules, of morphine on the western head of the Jardine River one time. They looked old.
Didn't bring them home as I had to come home through Cairns airport and I didn't think they'd like to see them.
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