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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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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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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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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My chemist made it up for me.

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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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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.
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6.8 million entries to date.

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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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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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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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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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