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Hi. A friend just sent me the URL for this site, and I find it quite interesting! I was reading some of the comments, in particular the one about the use of turpentine and thought I'd pass along a "recipe" that my great-great-great-grandma Elizabeth Robbins Crawford wrote from California as a P.S. to a letter dated July 1865 to her brother Moses Robbins in Indiana: "I am going to rite you a receipt to make liniment. Take half a pint of lintseed oil and three tablespoonsful of fine black peper - steep the peper and oil together half an hour -- when cool ad one once of el______ (Marilyn didn't know what this ingredient was) an one once of camphor dissolved in a vial of opium an one once of turpentine -- put it in a bottle and shake. Put on your joints once or twice a day and get you a liver pill and take every night for five nights and then take one every other night." Marilyn Nickless |
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