For any French speakers

This link...

http://www.dailymotion.pl/video/x5im1t_ultranostalgie-le-suppositoire

And since I'm not fluent in my ancestral language,could someone please translate the edited highlights for me?

Hi, squidgi

My French isn't so good, I can read it without greats problems but don't understand so much when hearing; so, as you, I'm waiting a transcription.

It concerns a harmless dialog in view of a dental treatment of this very young child.

n this clip the history of the application of suppositories is described in French. In the beginning it was the search for the application of drugs with a bad taste, this especially for children.

When I was a kid, suppositories were a very common form of treatment for children in France - apparently they were considered safer than pills (no risk of swallowing them in the wrong way) or syrups (some medicines have a strong taste, and syrups contain sugar, leading to tooth decay).

I stayed with a French family one summer as an exchange student. I saw one of the children (a four year old boy) given a glycerine suppository for constipation! This was back in the 1960's but from what I gather suppositories are still popular thare.

I stayed with a French family one summer as an exchange student. I saw one of the children (a four year old boy) given a glycerine suppository for constipation! This was back in the 1960's but from what I gather suppositories are still popular thare.

Yes, suppositories are part of the French culture, especially for painkillers such as aspirin and ibuprofen. Sensible really as this avoids the somach lining being damaged.

The same applies in general to Belgium as well. My grandmother and aunt were fervent believers of suppository use and back in the 50's, early 60's they were used for many applications. Glycerin suppositories for constipation were the most common application that I can remember, but I wouldn't have been surprised had vitamins been given in that manner as well at one time or another.

A few days ago, I was present in a neighborhood Belgian pharmacy and could not help overhearing a nearby customer, a Spanish tourist family, discussing and examining several brands and types of suppositories carefully and in detail with the pharmacist. The pharmacist also suggested using a Fleet enema, but this was apparently dismissed by the family as not being what they expected to be sold in the way of a medicine against (travelers) constipation. So the practice of using suppositories is far from being outdated.