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Description
The recipe for herbal remedies written in the hand of John Y. Merrill of Leeds.
Included on this piece of paper are a recipe for liquid medicine to treat "rhumatism" and one for a poultice to be applied to the chest.
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About This Item
- Title: Rheumatism and poultice recipe, ca. 1860
- Creator: John Young Merrill
- Creation Date: circa 1860
- Subject Date: circa 1860
- Location: Leeds, Androscoggin County, ME
- Media: Pencil on paper
- Dimensions: 20 cm x 12.5 cm
- Collection: Merrill Family Collection
- Object Type: Physical Object
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- flour all spice
- ginger
- golden seal
- guacuan chips
- herbal remedies
- kidney wort
- medicine
- mustard
- poultice
- rheumatism
- rum
- senna
- thoroughwort
- white sugar
- yellow dock root
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Leeds Historical Society553 North Road, Leeds, ME 04263
(207) 524-2324
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