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Sunday, October 23, 2005

The Practical Guide to Health

My mother recieved this book “The Practical Guide to Health” that used to belong to my great-great-grandmother.  This book was a valuable item in the early 1900’s.  Transportation was a problem and often times required a whole day to go a short distance.  Trips into town were limited to once a month.  When someone got sick or hurt this book was used as a resource on how to treat the individual. 
Remedies in this book seem funny to us today.  I wonder if some of them may have actually worked better than our modern day medicine.  People today are impatient and want an immediate cure.  Often times illnesses have to run a cource.  This book did not provide instance cures.  The purpose was to realive the symptonsl.  I feel this book could still be used today.  Some of the treatments may be helpful when added with our modern day medicine. 

Posted by David Hume on 10/23 at 11:02 AM
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