Home Remedies Manual,
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.
Dates
- Creation: c. 1921
Creator
- Hodgkins, Samuel (New York) (Person)
Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
Use Restrictions
Permission to publish material from Home Remedies Manual must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.
Biographical Information
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.
Full Extent
0.1 Cubic Feet (1 folder)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection is a circa 1921 home remedies manual created by Samuel Hodgkins, a New York farmer. The manual contains recipes for making household items like paint and illness remedies for both humans and horses.
Arrangement
This collection was arranged by material type.
Acquisition Information
The Home Remedies Manual was aquired by Special Collections in 2010.
Processing Information
The processing, arrangement, and description of the Home Remedies Manual was completed in October, 2010.
- Title
- A Guide to the Home Remedies Manual, c. 1921
- Status
- Completed
- Subtitle
- A collection in Special Collections.
- Author
- Julia Viets
- Date
- © 2010 By Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. All rights reserved
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections, Virginia Tech Repository
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
560 Drillfield Drive
Newman Library, Virginia Tech
Blacksburg Virginia 24061 US
540-231-6308
specref@vt.edu