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Slippery Elm
Volume 1, entries 1559. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → FOLK MEDICINE → CURE AND PROTECTION. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 1559
(Well, what kind of medicine would take that - get those things off - that snake out of there?) Well, ah tell you what you kin do. You ever hear tell of slippery elm, nightshade. Well, you take slippery elm and nightshade and running water, them's three simple things, and you kin take a tea- spoonful three times a day and run eny kind of poison out cheh, yes.
(Now, what do they do with that - steep it in there or boil or what?)
No, ah don't know anything about roots. I don't know anything about dat but jest the slippery elm [also called red elm], the nightshade and the spring water, and then that'll run 'em out cheh. And then when they'd come, you'd put that, whatsomever pass from you - ground puppies, frogs, in my instance I had a turtle was in me - and then you throws it in de running water. And as fer as that goes, long as that keeps arunning and molt in de river or in de canal, or wheresomever you put it at, long as that'll keep agoing, the person will keep agoing. Then when that lodge - you know, everything lodges in the water, in de seaweeds or something, you see - well, then that will be the end of the person what did that harm to you.