Clyde..can you remember the old medicines named Sal Hepatica, Black Draught, and Scalf's Indian River Tonic?

Paul

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I remember the first two but the last one must be unique to Wise County. We had Castor Oil, Epsom Salts, Hites Pain Remedy and Raymonds little liver pills.etc.

Mother would make our cough syrup from wild cherry bark, wild horehound and honey. It was better than what you bought at the store.

When I was about 5 years old she fried onions and made a poultice to put on my chest for a bad cold. I cannot eat anything with fried onions in it yet today. It is not the taste of the onion, it is the odor.

Another molasses story for Don.......
My grandfather had a cane mill and would "rent" it out to the neighbors and take his pay in molasses which was common it the early days.

He had made his molasses but didn't cook them quite long enough and they were too thin. One morning during breakfast he told my father to go to Mr Joel Eanes and collect his toll for the use of the mill that he was getting tired of chasing the molasses all over his plate trying to catch them. He said Mr Eanes always made good molases. The next morning for breakfast he poured some of Mr Eanes' molasses on his plate and they were thinner than what he had made.

jist ole clyde