
          985.

* On another occasion he used a certain liniment for a rheumatic affliction of his wrist.
He put the liniment of a rag & bound it around his wrist. He said "It burnt like everything
& I could see the steam coming off drawing the soreness out from my bones."

I said, 'Where is that liquid, I'm going to bathe my leg again"? 
and I took the same liquid I had used in the morning and
bathed the sore again until all the flour was washed off,
and then I sprinkled more flour on.  With this treatment
my sores were soon well and these that doctor had been working
on them for four weeks."  He then said, "And why shouldn't
Epsom salts be good?, it is good to take internally and
of course it ought to be good externally."  At another time
he had a cut hand.  The doctor put chloroform on it.
As long as he kept bathing the hand with the chloroform, he
had no pain, but as soon as he stopped the pain came
again.  That night he couldn't sleep.  The pain was fearful
and he said to his wife, "I can't stand it any longer,
mash me some potatoes" and she mashed him some and he
put them on his cut and the pain stopped at once.  The 
next morning, he said, "the potatoes were all black from 
the poison they had soaked out of the wound."*  He believed 
in mashed potatoes; they were good, too, for those sore feet, that
boys get by walking through the grass barefoot, when the dew
is on the ground, their feet sinking in the poison from the dew.
        