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For some throat, [ words scribbled out] you'd give
them salt wafer to gargle
with. But they'd choke on that.
Seems the throat got better, less sore.

Remembers her mother-in-law once
got a bad cough. The doctor gave her
a bottle of cough medicine. But
after she came home from church,
She never coughed no more - the
cough went away. Sometimes it
works like that, that if you
do something for them, it you
give a remedy, you think it does
good.

Mustard plaster -
Used to use a lot, for her
bronchal cough. Used dry mustard
(depends on where you want to
spread it over) dissolved in
warm water + made a paste out
of it. Put on a rag on the body + spread it
on. Keep it there, + fold over
the other part of the cloth;
(drawing of a rectangle with a dotted line vertically in the middle, a line drawn to words mustard plaster on right end of rectangle, another line drawn to words cloth for chest)

Kept it between 2 cloth layers.
The heat draw the cough.
Must be careful that you don't
get burned. Kept on for a while
so it penetrated - an hour or
more. The mustard combined with