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Tag Archives: remedies
Roaches & garlic
Whiskey and turpentine? Sounds a bit like the homemade cough syrup my mother used to fix for me when I was young. While we’re on the subject of strange prescriptions, here’s an excerpt from a 1930s pamphlet in the Delta … Continue reading
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Tagged cooperatives, cough syrup, farms, garlic, homemade remedies, medical treatments, Mississippi, Mississippi Delta, remedies, roaches
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The Turpentine Remedy
You never know what you’re going to find in our collections. Today, while looking for something totally unrelated, I happened upon a folder with an intriguing title: “Prescription and Diet Book, circa 1800s.” I thought I might have stumbled on … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Featured Z-Collections
Tagged Civil War, diet, hospital, prescription, remedies, treatments, turpentine, whiskey
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