Oh wait...by "yurse", might she have meant "juice" as in to treat her husband with a drink made of "slippery elm and juice"? Hmmm? . Bye for now, Kathleen. > [Original Message] > Subject: [MDGARRET] Medicinal > > 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