c. 1863 / Missouri

Home Remedies

Tags:: 1860s,; American South,; Federal Writers' Project,; Missouri,; slavery

For sore throat or quinsy, he had some sort of tea. He used onion tea too. He took an onion, roasted it in its hull in ashes, squeezed out the juice, and added a little sugar, and gave it to the patient. For rheumatism, he used poke root—dried it, and put it in whiskey. The only thing that is good for is rheumatics. There were many more remedies, but I can’t recall them now.

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Gus Smith, from Slave Narratives of the Federal Writers' Project. Smith's account of his life as an American slave is one of more than 2,300 such histories collected by the organization of the Works Progress Administration. The Federal Writers' Project provided jobs to writers, editors, and researchers during the Great Depression and produced guides to all of the then forty-eight states and major cities.

Physician, heal yourself: thus you help your patient too. Let his best help be to see with his own eyes the man who makes himself well.