"e;This book is a collection of odd and old receipes to cure the ills of people and animals, mostly told to me by the believers...."e;Myself, I do not know enough to say how or why one certain weed will calm a fever in a sick dog or antelope, nor can I guess what tells the beasts about that weed... All I can do is wonder, and everything that I have remembered and recorded here has made me do that."e;For years Mary Fisher has been collecting lore about odd restoratives and remedies-medicines, nostrums, herbs, oils, powders, charms, poultices, liquors, brews and miscellaneous cure-alls for coughs, colds, sore throats, poisons, "e;consumpshuns,"e; freckles and warts, nosebleeds, bites of insects and mad dogs, burns, rashes, rheumatism, excess weight, chills, fevers, indigestion, hangovers, impotence, "e;lowness of Spirrits,"e; and wounds incurred in the mating season.Now...
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