Black Liquid

[John Rogers]

Can any of you oldies remember the black Juice you were given to cure everything that was bad for you while at sea, It was called BLACKDRAFT, never knew what was in it.

[Malcolm G]

A laxative containing Senna and other ingredients would possibly fit the bill.

[John Rogers]

Yes Mal that's it, they gave it to us for every ailments.

[lakercapt]

It was vile stuff but when I sailed in Palm Line down the coast as the person delegated to care for the Kroo labour on board if they had any ailments
was a wonderful cure-all. Wentr through gallons of it. They loved the stuff and frequently requested it.

[Dartskipper]

An ex colleague of mine who had served in the sick bay on RN ships said the medicine he dispensed the most was Kaolin and Morphine! Possibly due to different catering standards perhaps?

[Engine Serang]

In Texaco it was Black Draught and you were advised to be in the starting blocks before the first spoonful.

[Malcolm G]

The youngest of my two sisters has vascular dementia and is now ‘happily’ living in a nursing home.
When she was still relatively cognitive her daughter discovered that she was taking sennocide and loperamide alternately on a day to day basis.
There was a slight falling out when the daughter confiscated her mum’s ‘medicine’.

[garryNorton]

We used it to make you go to the toilet

[Varley]

Sennocide? Death by defaecation?

[Malcolm G]

Senna glycoside - I think you would need a hefty overdose to be fatal…

[rustytrawler]

E.S. drinks it, it is served up all over Dublin at 7 euro a pop. It just goes to show how it has affected him.

[Engine Serang]

Black Draught 00 allows you to sit all night on the crapper and not get a hangover. Uncle Arthur knows his clientele.

[Varley]

Ah. The S makes all the difference, sugar of senna as Macbeth's hags would have known it (his good Lady's behaviour probably meant it was not used much in those days, at least not for the guests).

I am not sure what can be done with E-S' problems of hang over. Our Doulton 'Health' bowel-bowl design might help (we have three left, they have more of a saddle than a seat and impressed my late doctor uncle. Not completely however as he said the angle was insufficient in terms of matching Newtonian physics with optimum porcelain drop conditions and that ideally one should squat like an Arab to do the job). I have rarely suffered from anything hanging over (even in hot weather), not anything I wanted rid of anyway.

[John Rogers]

It is a well known fact the Black Juice would heal your cold as sneezing would fill your underwear.