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Doctorin’ In The Mountains
"Most of the pioneer people were their own doctors. They grew herbs of all descriptions and when anybody was sick and if they couldn’t take care of themselves - that’s when they called the doctor. Two of the main medicines they kept on hand were paregoric - for the children when thev cried; and calomel - which had to be taken twice a year to clear the system out. You know the liver would be always acting up so calomel had to be kept on hand. Nowadays it's considered one of the worst things in the world to take.
"Now. every old place - and 1 have them at home - had all kinds of (lowers and plants that you now pay an outrageous price for. These plants were grown and used as medicine in a poultice. Everybody had some kind of carbuncles, or boils, so they’d make poultices out of the root of the August lily. That's a sweet lily that blooms in August. It has great big leaves on it. Some are purple and some are white. They're very, very sweet and you would dig up the roots and keep them on hand. Then if you had a boil you’d make a poultice out of the root.
"They had sage, of course, that they used for seasoning, and they had basil and thyme and horehound for colds, and one wonderful thing for a cold was an onion poultice.
"Every child had to wear a sack around his neck. 1 was one who didn't have to wear one - my mother didn’t believe in it. In the sack was asfetida, (horrible to smell) and that was to keep from catching diseases.
"If a child lived through childhood, he stood a pretty good chance of living to lie old. Most children died of diptheria. measles, or typhoid fever.
“They didn't have typhoid much in the winter, just in
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