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My wonderful Mom put me to bed many nights, sick with a chest cold, with a flannel chest plaster under my pjs soaked with a heated mixture of turpentine, Mentholatum and Vicks Vaporub. That chest cold would be loosened up by morning, and you would be well in a few days. Can't see how it ever hurt me, in the least.

If I had a relentless cough that wouldn't go away she would hang a towel over the headstand of my bed stoked in turpentine. The cough would absolutely stop soon after going to bed. It, also never seemed to do me any harm.

What harm is turpentine supposedly to do to you, now?

SRH