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Jenny Patterson cookbook, May 24, 1880
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Cure for Cancer. Take a piece of [corn?]-plaster or sticking plaster over the cancer with a circular piece cut out of the center a little larger than the cancer so that a circular rim of healthy skin next to it be exposed. Then a plaster made of chloride of zinc, blood root and wheat flour spread on a piece of muslin of the size of the circular opening and applied to the cancer for twenty-four hours. Remove the plaster dress the wound the outside skin suppurates and the cancer comes out a hard lump and the place heals up. Cure for Corns. Take the inside peel of a lemon and bind it on the corn for several nights in succession.
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Cure for Cancer. Take a piece of [corn?]-plaster or sticking plaster over the cancer with a circular piece cut out of the center a little larger than the cancer so that a circular rim of healthy skin next to it be exposed. Then a plaster made of chloride of zinc, blood root and wheat flour spread on a piece of muslin of the size of the circular opening and applied to the cancer for twenty-four hours. Remove the plaster dress the wound the outside skin suppurates and the cancer comes out a hard lump and the place heals up. Cure for Corns. Take the inside peel of a lemon and bind it on the corn for several nights in succession.
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