This is what was in my late parents’ medicine cabinet (not my grandparents), in the 1960s and 1970s:
iodine
Bactine
aspirin
Ben-Gay, and later, also Tiger Balm
Aspergum
Vick’s Vapo-Rub
cherry flavored cough syrup
Throat Discs (a small beige Necco-like wafer with menthol, eucalyptus and licorice)
Sucrets
“Helps” (tiny black licorice pieces with menthol and eucalyptus)
“Chips” (Chipurnoi), both the licorice and the menthol-eucalyptus flavors-- by the way, you can still buy these.
Milk of Magnesia
Preparation H
Brioschi and Rolaids
Rubbing alcohol
Hydrogen Peroxide
Prell shampoo
Pond’s Vanishing Cream and Pond’s Dry Skin Cream
Robert Curley hair cream, with lanolin
PhisoHex (and after they had to remove the hexachlorophene, PhisoDerm)
Mavis talcum powder in the red tin.