
          984.

He told me that he once had a sore caused by the
rubbing of a boot.  The sore began to spread and then other
sores appeared above the first until he had sores all over his
leg.  "Had anyone seen them", he said, "they would have thought
that my blood was out of order."  "But it wasn't, it was
only the poison in that boot that caused it."  Well, he got
a doctor and he prescribed for him, but nothing seemed to 
do him any good.  Finally, he said "I'm getting tired of
this, I'm going to cure myself."  And he said to his wife,
"Now take a handful of Epsom salts, a handful it
appeared to me, and dissolve it in a basin of water.  I
then put my foot into another basin and began bathing
those sore with the liquid.  As soon as the first drop
touched those sores I began to feel better, and I kept
bathing them for more than an hour.  After that I said
you have some rye flour, not [now] get me some of that
and I sprinkled it all over them.  I said now I'm going 
to sleep, and I lay down and fell fast asleep, and Oh! I 
slept so sound, I had been in pain for more than four weeks,
I slept until late in the night. I then got awake and
        