[TheForge] Blacksmith medical cure

[John Switzer]

Personally I have a wort one figer, it's been there for years now.  My 
hands are in the slack tub fairly often (retrieving lost part, washing off 
the worst of the filth, cooling burns).  The wort hasn't gone away yet.

John




>While demonstraiting this last weekend I had a lady bring her son over and
>ask if he could put his hand in my slack bucket.  Appariently he had worts
>on his hand and she beleaved that the water of a blacksmith's bucket was the
>cure.  The boy wasn't real hot on the idea but at his mom's insistance he
>finally put his hand in my wooden bucket.  She said that she would let me
>know if it worked.  She said that her borther had been cured that way when
>he was a boy.
>
>I think a red hot poker would probably have had a better chance.
>
>Have any of you heard of other home remidies connected to blacksmithing?
>
>Robert Ehrenberger
>Shelbyville, Mo.
>
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John Switzer
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