Could be........slippery elm. http://www.1001herbs.com/slipperyelm/ now--"yurse" -------no idea except maybe "purslane", a weed, green or roughage. >Doctors and nurses, My great grandmother b. in Somerset County, PA in 1831 >who lived in Garrett County 1860-69 +- wrote her daughter to treat her husband >with "sliperalum and yurse." It is the best I can make out from the writing. >I don't know a better spelling and I never heard of anything like it. Does >anyone recognize it as a treatment of something? This correspondence took place >between Kansas and Oklahoma in 1915. > >Gerald > > > >