Take your medication every day

[venta]

A few months back, florence90 got scarlet fever, and I pointed out to her that no one has sensibly had that since the 20th century began. It's clearly an illness suffered by droopy heroines in Victorian novels.

However. The onset of cold weather has reminded me that I'm just as bad. Every year, without fail, I spend most of winter with chilblains.

Now, according to the Forgotten English desk calendar I had a few years back, "chilblains" is in the ranks of the forgotten. I don't know if that's quite true, but really - all winter you hear people grumbling about coughs and colds and the like; chilblains are never mentioned. Lemsip constantly bring out new, improved snazzy cold cures. I see no miracle Chil-Go gracing the shelves of Boots-the-Disappearing-Chemists.

Is there anyone else in the world, anywhere, who also has skin which hasn't realised that chilblains are so last century ?

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[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Dancing barefoot in the snow is the old wives'cure

This goes a long way towards explaining why the old wives had so many chillblains in the first place.