Purslane came to my mind also. > [Original Message] > From: Carolyn Shupe <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 8/28/2006 5:58:19 PM > Subject: [MDGARRET] Medicinal - Slippery Elm > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== MDGARRET Mailing List ==== > If you need help with this list, make sure to email the list administrator, Sonny O'Haver, [email protected] >