Comments on: “Stay home-and gargle with Listerine every 2 hours” (Mar, 1931)

By: Upstate Girl

Upstate Girl — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:51:05 +0000

I use Listerine when I get sick and it works.

fruitloop — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:19:30 +0000

whenever i get a sore throat, from a cold or flu, i gargle with listerine mouthwash every few hours and it instantly soothes it

fred — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:12:03 +0000

who had the patience to count 200,000,000 dead germ-o’s?

Toronto — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:51:09 +0000

I thought the bright pink staining stuff was mecurichrome. Whatever, they were both mercury based and aren’t used for that anymore.

nlpnt — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:38:50 +0000

Merthiolate- my mom used that stuff on cuts, but I never heard of it being taken orally. Stained everything it touched hot pink, iirc.

slim — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:09:57 +0000

I remember the family doctor swabbing my throat with Merthiolate when I was a kid.
Nasty stuff.

mark baard — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:14:59 +0000

this is the kind of “bogus” cure someone in a lab today might prove useful, after all! like purel cuts the spread of the flu by 50 percent…

Eamon — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:03:33 +0000

I read that as “for 2 hours”.

I also like that the King of Golf has a Listerine Hour.