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Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Home Remedies Manual, Ms2010-073, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Source of Acquisition

The Home Remedies Manual was purchased by Special Collections in 2010.

Processing Information

The processing, arrangement, and description of the Home Remedies Manual was completed in October 2010.

Biographical Note

Presumably, this manual was created by Samuel Hodgkins. Most likely, he was an aged farmer living in New York around the time the manual was written.

Scope and Content

This collection consists of a small handwritten manual. It is bound in a single sheet of newspaper from New York that dates to 1921; the outer cover contains advertisements for an Arabian horse, insurance, and a "Young Ladies Academy" and the inside covers contain court notices. The manual cover's title is, "Samuel Hodgkins Recipts." In the inside covers, this name is written several times in a hand that looks the same as the one that penned the manual's contents.

The manual's contents include recipes for illness remedies as well as those for household goods: Illness remedies for humans include those for sore eyes, dysentery, itching, feet corn, jaundice, and rheumatism. One Indian cure for "fever and ague" instructs how to boil various types of bark into a tea. For horse illnesses, home cures for such ailments as ringbone, blind staggers, strains, and yellow water are given. Household good recipes listed in this manual include those for making green paint, wood stain, and cherry varnish.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Folk, historical, and patent medicine
• History of Food and Drink
• Home economics
• Traditional medicine

Rights Statement for Archival Description

The guide to the Home Remedies Manual by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).