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Pole Evil Medicine and Other Cures Manuscript
Biomed.0282  
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Manuscript includes treatments and recipes such as "Pole Evil Medicine--is to be applied first to the sore direct in quantities sufficient to saturate ... "; "Rev. J.B. Findley's Recipe for Cholera Morbus"; "E.C. Cooper, M.D. on Cronic [sic] Bronchitis"; treatment for "Gleet and Gonnorhea" [sic]; and "Clergyman's Sore Throat" as well as recipes for sausage meat, curing hams, how to pickle 100 pounds of beef, black ink and blue ink, hair dye, and fruit grafting wax. Pole or Poll Evil medicine is used to treat a type of fistula found in horses.
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1 unknown (170 pages)
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