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Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

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Maria Tallmadge Cushman home remedies notebook

00-1949-39-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-1949-39-0
Scope and Contents The Maria Tallmadge Cushman home remedies notebook (1949-39-0) was compiled by Maria Tallmadge Cushman from the year 1840 through 1864. The small notebook contains home remedies for illness as well as many recipes and hints for household cleaning. Many of the remedies are handwritten, and a fair amount are newspaper clippings. Health remedies include treatments for cholera, cancer, colds, rheumatism, dysentery, and "Mrs. Noyes Recipe for purifying the blood." Interspersed with health cures...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1840-1864; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1948