Oh you stupid woman!

[SallyMc]

I love old books and one was a housewifes guide to everything.....there was quite a lot about burns (presumably because of open fires, gas rings etc) and the advice was to bathe burnt people in HOT water and apply butter......

The thought of the suffering that must have caused makes me feel ill.

:doh:

 

[SueG]

Oh that's terrible, Sally. The people who (or whose parents) followed such 'advice' will have experienced such agony, it doesn't bear thinking about.