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  • "Parish's Food"

    From joycesage116@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Geoffrey S Sewell on Wed Jan 17 14:11:24 2018
    On Tuesday, 30 October 2001 07:29:08 UTC, Geoffrey S Sewell wrote:
    This is probably the best place to find some answers. My father was born
    and raised in Dunmurry, NI. Reading through his account of what he can remember growing up he recounts that he was 'delicate' as a child which necessitated frequent doses of "Parish's food". Can anyone tell me what it was? I have many other questions that i will post over time. His memoirs make for interesting reading.

    Geoffrey Sewell
    Johannesburg
    South Africa

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  • From joycesage116@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Geoffrey S Sewell on Wed Jan 17 14:37:07 2018
    On Tuesday, 30 October 2001 07:29:08 UTC, Geoffrey S Sewell wrote:
    This is probably the best place to find some answers. My father was born
    and raised in Dunmurry, NI. Reading through his account of what he can remember growing up he recounts that he was 'delicate' as a child which necessitated frequent doses of "Parish's food". Can anyone tell me what it was? I have many other questions that i will post over time. His memoirs make for interesting reading.

    Geoffrey Sewell
    Johannesburg
    South Africa

    I have come across this in my search to find Parishs food, which I had as a child but no ones seems to have heard of it. None of my four sisters had it but I had been sent from the east end of london in 1953 to a school in sussex for "delicate" children,
    I was unusually small for my years and very thin and pale. Every day I had parishs foodat the school, I gained weight and it saved my life. when I left school and had no more parishs food, I gadually got very ill again and was diagnosed with Coeliac
    disease as the cause of my problems, I was given a blood transfusion put on a gluten free diet and flourished. I am now 78 years of age, still on the diet, feeling very well and no disabilities. But it did ruin my teeth!!!

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  • From joycesage116@gmail.com@21:1/5 to nifty on Wed Jan 17 14:37:45 2018
    On Tuesday, 30 October 2001 13:36:58 UTC, nifty wrote:
    Parishes Food was an tonic based on iron -tasted AWFUL !

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  • From RoddyMcCorley@21:1/5 to joycesage116@gmail.com on Thu Jan 18 14:02:03 2018
    On 1/17/2018 5:37 PM, joycesage116@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, 30 October 2001 07:29:08 UTC, Geoffrey S Sewell wrote:
    This is probably the best place to find some answers. My father was born
    and raised in Dunmurry, NI. Reading through his account of what he can
    remember growing up he recounts that he was 'delicate' as a child which
    necessitated frequent doses of "Parish's food". Can anyone tell me what it >> was? I have many other questions that i will post over time. His memoirs >> make for interesting reading.

    Geoffrey Sewell
    Johannesburg
    South Africa

    I have come across this in my search to find Parishs food, which I had as a child but no ones seems to have heard of it. None of my four sisters had it but I had been sent from the east end of london in 1953 to a school in sussex for "delicate"
    children, I was unusually small for my years and very thin and pale. Every day I had parishs foodat the school, I gained weight and it saved my life. when I left school and had no more parishs food, I gadually got very ill again and was diagnosed with
    Coeliac disease as the cause of my problems, I was given a blood transfusion put on a gluten free diet and flourished. I am now 78 years of age, still on the diet, feeling very well and no disabilities. But it did ruin my teeth!!!


    This is from a post from 2015:

    shan...@gmail.com 12/20/15

    Compound syrup of ferrous phosphate (parrish's food) composition

    Iron 4.3 g
    Phosphoric acid 48ml
    calcium carbonate 13.6
    potassium bicarbonate 1g
    sodium phosphate 1g
    Cochineal 3.5g
    sucrose 700g
    orange flavour 50ml
    purified water sufficient to produce 1000ml

    One of the posts I saw stated that it may have contained arsenic. That
    is possible that arsenic was inadvertently added simply due to the fact
    that it often accompanies other sulfide minerals in nature.

    --
    False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul
    with evil.

    Pennsylvania - Tá sé difriúil anseo.

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  • From kareninspain123@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 4 03:36:56 2018
    My chemist made it up for me.

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  • From sari.byrne@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Geoffrey S Sewell on Sun Sep 16 03:31:57 2018
    On Tuesday, October 30, 2001 at 7:29:08 AM UTC, Geoffrey S Sewell wrote:
    This is probably the best place to find some answers. My father was born
    and raised in Dunmurry, NI. Reading through his account of what he can remember growing up he recounts that he was 'delicate' as a child which necessitated frequent doses of "Parish's food". Can anyone tell me what it was? I have many other questions that i will post over time. His memoirs make for interesting reading.

    Geoffrey Sewell
    Johannesburg
    South Africa

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  • From Doug Laidlaw@21:1/5 to sari.byrne@gmail.com on Mon Nov 19 22:32:58 2018
    On 16/09/18 20:31, sari.byrne@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, October 30, 2001 at 7:29:08 AM UTC, Geoffrey S Sewell wrote:
    This is probably the best place to find some answers. My father was born
    and raised in Dunmurry, NI. Reading through his account of what he can
    remember growing up he recounts that he was 'delicate' as a child which
    necessitated frequent doses of "Parish's food". Can anyone tell me what it >> was? I have many other questions that i will post over time. His memoirs >> make for interesting reading.

    Geoffrey Sewell
    Johannesburg
    South Africa

    It seems to have been a tonic:

    https://forums.digitalspy.com/discussion/1954799/medicines-you-remember-from-childhood/p4

    Another link suggested that it was bright red.

    HTH,

    Doug.
    --
    www.ryersonindex.org/ indexing Australian death notices.
    6.8 million entries to date.

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  • From Doug Laidlaw@21:1/5 to Doug Laidlaw on Wed Nov 21 03:09:10 2018
    On 19/11/18 22:32, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
    On 16/09/18 20:31, sari.byrne@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, October 30, 2001 at 7:29:08 AM UTC, Geoffrey S Sewell wrote:
    This is probably the best place to find some answers.  My father was
    born
    and raised in Dunmurry, NI.  Reading through his account of what he can >>> remember growing up he recounts that he was 'delicate' as a child which
    necessitated frequent doses of "Parish's food".  Can anyone tell me
    what it
    was?  I have many other questions that i will post over time.  His
    memoirs
    make for interesting reading.

    Geoffrey Sewell
    Johannesburg
    South Africa

    It seems to have been a tonic:

    https://forums.digitalspy.com/discussion/1954799/medicines-you-remember-from-childhood/p4


    Another link suggested that it was bright red.

    HTH,

    Doug.

    I mentioned this thread to my wife, who is a qualified pharmacist. She believes that the tonic was originally "Parrish food," and the name was corrupted. "Parish food" suggested to me the food given in workhouses,
    but that would NOT be given to delicate babies.

    Doug.

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  • From margmody@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 13 01:13:48 2020
    I'm 76 and as a child in London, loved parishes food. It was for anaemia and I thought it delicious! It was red and came in a medicine bottle.

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  • From RoddyMcCorley@21:1/5 to margmody@gmail.com on Thu Jun 18 00:45:28 2020
    On 6/13/2020 4:13 AM, margmody@gmail.com wrote:
    I'm 76 and as a child in London, loved parishes food. It was for anaemia and I thought it delicious! It was red and came in a medicine bottle.

    Are you sure it was not "Geritol" or the GB equivalent?

    --
    Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish
    childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.

    Pennsylvania - Tá sé difriúil anseo.

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  • From BRIANA MASON@21:1/5 to RoddyMcCorley on Mon Feb 1 09:25:49 2021
    On Thursday, June 18, 2020 at 12:45:30 AM UTC-4, RoddyMcCorley wrote:
    On 6/13/2020 4:13 AM, marg...@gmail.com wrote:
    I'm 76 and as a child in London, loved parishes food. It was for anaemia and I thought it delicious! It was red and came in a medicine bottle.

    Are you sure it was not "Geritol" or the GB equivalent?

    --
    Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. Pennsylvania - Tá sé difriúil anseo.
    Is this Jamaica y'all talking about?

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