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Cough Remedy

Take one lemon from the garden-house potted lemon tree.
Boil the lemon slowly for ten minutes.
Take two tablespoons of glycerine, stir the glycerine
and lemon juice well, then fill up the drinking glass
with honey. Give to those as needed because of
coughing spells. Or cut the nipple of a baby bottle
so a baby can suck down the mixture. For adult males,
three tablespoons of moonshine can be added.

Submitter comment: From the doctoring book of Springhill Plantation,
kept by Florida Amanda Pearce before the Civil War.
(More at Informant profile.)

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Subject headings: Favorites
BELIEF -- Plant

Date learned: 00001940CA

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