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Bethune Family recipe book, October 22, 1826
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vers on Hagliss: the manner in which I recommended it was as follows: the first took a mercurial purge, and was ordered to abstain from all salt, meals, & to use this diet, and twice a day to drink a quarter of a pint of the juice of clivers. which she had well pounded & squeezed at the same time. I ordered her to boil the juice mixed with hogs lard so as to make a very Soft green ointment and constantly to be applied to the wounds, laying the bruised leaves over it, and I ordered her to put fresh on, as often as the other dried and to take particular care to keep the wound clean. All this was immediately put in practice partly by compulsion and using great importunity; for the benefit was so very gradual that I could hardly persuade the old woman that she was the better for the stuff, &c. I myself began to be doubtful, but I was encouraged by the offensive smell being somewhat abated & her being yet alive were to me convincing proofs that a cure would in time be effected; accordingly I pressed & insisted on our continuing the practice as above and it being a mild winter, there were clivers to be had in warm hedges; The same course was continued and in three months after the wound is as perfectly healed. I afterwards advised her to take
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vers on Hagliss: the manner in which I recommended it was as follows: the first took a mercurial purge, and was ordered to abstain from all salt, meals, & to use this diet, and twice a day to drink a quarter of a pint of the juice of clivers. which she had well pounded & squeezed at the same time. I ordered her to boil the juice mixed with hogs lard so as to make a very Soft green ointment and constantly to be applied to the wounds, laying the bruised leaves over it, and I ordered her to put fresh on, as often as the other dried and to take particular care to keep the wound clean. All this was immediately put in practice partly by compulsion and using great importunity; for the benefit was so very gradual that I could hardly persuade the old woman that she was the better for the stuff, &c. I myself began to be doubtful, but I was encouraged by the offensive smell being somewhat abated & her being yet alive were to me convincing proofs that a cure would in time be effected; accordingly I pressed & insisted on our continuing the practice as above and it being a mild winter, there were clivers to be had in warm hedges; The same course was continued and in three months after the wound is as perfectly healed. I afterwards advised her to take
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