A lil dab of Mercury will do ya.

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[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

this was ALL that my grandmother would use on bug bites, scrapes, all of it. including on her grandchildren!

[innostrantsa.livejournal.com]

This stuff!! Always wondered what it was (it came up a lot in children's and YA books of my youth), but never took the time to actually look it up. Wow.

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

i'm sure my mother wasn't the only kid the dentist sent home with a little blob or mercury to play with.

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

BUT—you know, for years female saxophone players had to put it ON THEIR LIPS (http://scienceblogs.com/speakeasyscience/2010/03/10/mercurochrome-memories/) if they were on stage because regular lipstick would wear off.

[john-holton.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine once defined agony as "sliding down a razor blade into a vat of mercurochrome."

My grandfather used iodine.