[TheForge] Blacksmith medical cure

[Carl Tappan]

I've heard about soaking poison ivy in a slacktub to make it go away
quicker. Never done me a bloody bit of good, though.
Carl

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 09:35, John Switzer wrote:
> 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
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> >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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