As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
According to history, the first regulation of doctoring in Canada was in 1795 AD in the year of our Lord. It has pretty much been all down hill from there like Obamacare in America.
In serving the public, I decided to share the Canadian remedies which were accomplished for free in curing people, or at least doing something so the people who were suffering at least thought they were getting a cure.
Spikenard was made into a cough syrup, which of course was for coughs.
Blood Root was dried, ground up and snorted up the nose for a cure for polypus.
Catnip in a tea, was brewed up, and whether it was a stomach or a sore throat, everyone got a dose of catnip to cure things or pretend you were cured so as not to get a second dose. Catnip is not that bad really, just like green tea in the mint family.
Rhubarb cured those who were stove up eating nothing but flour and lard.
Tansy dried, was made into a tonic that did taste bad.
Hop tea was for indigestion, and why beer settles stomachs.
Cherry bark tea was for thinning the blood.
Children were always being scalded and burned, with no NFL help. A salve of black alder, lard, resin and beeswax is what the little Canucks were suffered with.
Smartweed which was steeped in vinegar, was a remedy for bruises. It was a pain reliever and reduced swelling, provided the bruise was not a cut of open tissue.
Plaintain leaves were bruised by rolling in the hand, and applied to aching feet as a poltice.
Garden bean leaves were steeped in lard, and when cooled this was applied for abraisons and open sores as a healing ointment.
Burdock root was dried, and then made into a tea for indigestion and to regulate the blood.
The May Apple or Mandrake roots were a gargle made for sore throats.
Nerve vine leaves were chewed to calm the nerves.
Roots of the elecampane were steeped to produce a soothing and healing lotion for open wounds, and made into a syrup to treat whooping cough.
Spearmint tea was made to break up a cold.
Mullein was given in more persistant or advanced stages of a cold.
Wormwood was given for everything, as being the worst kind of bitter, it was deemed to cure everything.
Actually my favorite treatment was tooth extraction. It was extraction and not pulling, as the Canadians did not have pliers, but wound instead, sit the person in a stout kitchen chair, where the afflicted would find a pocket knife in their mouth, which would slice the gum away from the tooth.
A turn key would then be inserted in it's hook under the tooth and it would be worked free.
My Vet actually did this, and I owe her a great deal of curing my phobia, as the modern dentist has a device which sort of moves the gum down which of course would not feel good without novacaine, and then she got ahold of it and got movement going to loosen it, so the roots would not pull out part of my jaw bone in splinters.
I was terrified a cut would have to be made as Mom had that done, which was nothing, but I did not want to have to get stitches. My Vet did the deed and sent me on a 500 mile pull to see TL.......well that was after I rested a day, as it was still bleeding when I bent over the next day.....and I had to rinse it out with salt water every day......so salt water is a good mouth rinse too not listed.
So any way, the Canuck doctors were sort of local farmers and things, and never took payment, and the Canucks survived right well. It was a thing of those people I guess, as my Gram was a healer like her Mum, and had her bag of potions as much as being a midwife, all the local women gave a holler to when birthing time was come.
Midwifing ain't all that hard, as most of it is natural like a cow having a calf. Just don't let her push, until she has dialated by breathing, keep her calm as she is not going to die, pop the head out, pop the shoulders out in the next few pushes, and you got a baby...........tie the cord off on the Mum and baby, not short or you get a inny navel, cut it, and make sure the kid is breathing.......that is why they slap junior on the ass hanging down to get all the birth fluids out, and wipe the kid down, and leave the kid to the Mum.
Big medicine and you get a reputation when things go right. When they go wrong like with most doctors, they get a bit interesting when the locals can get at you and string you up.
Well enough of this Canadian medicine.
"Richmond, Oct. 17, 1817.
"ADVERTISEMENT:
— This is to certify that I, Solomon Albert, is Good to cure any sore in word Complaint or any Pains, Rheumatick Pains or any Complaint what so ever the Subscriber doctors with yerbs and Roots. Any Person wishing to employ him will find him at Dick Bells.
"Solomon Albert."
That certainly did not cost 350,000 dollars in college, 7 years schooling and 500,000 dollars a year in malpractice.
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