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Angela Varesano
Date (?)
Anne Timko [???]
[??] - 12:30 pm. 7/26/72

[??] remedy ( bracket down next two paragraphs )

Used black salve [Ointment of
[??] , 20% ] to draw pus from a
wound that has festered.
This deep [??] wound open [??] it heals right, that [?]
so it heals from the bottom upward.
[?] to get it in drugstores in Freeland.

[??] wound, to draw the pus
[?] bread in the milk warmed on
[??] apply like a polultice +
bandage it. This will draw out the
pus + help it heal.

Some people use to used grass from the
garden - a kind of feathery weed
They use to wet it + squeeze with
fingers to soften it + get the juice out
[??] right on the wound + bandage it.
The [?] to heal it.

Flax seed poultice was also used.
Remembers her daughter Anna [ ? ] getting
hurt at playground on sight of
[??] - her nose was bleeding +
head wash[?}. The girl was about 3 years old.
The girl complained about her hand
the day she was supposed to be in
the school Christmas play; the compl[?}
was on her finger, which became
infected. Anne took her to the
[?] the day after Christmas