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Greatest Remedy
Volume 1, entries 1050. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → FOLK MEDICINE → FOLK MEDICINE (1) PRINCIPLES OF HEALING. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 1050
A man, just goin' around selling diff'rent medicines and things like that, and he'd work on these people where they just believed those things. He say mostly de trouble with those people - you ketch de majority of 'em now, he didn't say all - say in de majority you ketch 'em and they need a cleaning out. He say, "What I'd do, '' say, "I'll buy two or three pounds of Epsom salts." [Laxative or alcohol is the principal ingredient of many hoodoo medicines - see Index.]