Word: sweetgum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Killin' & Drawin'. As their principal remedy, the quacks used a paste in an age-old combination: a "killin' salve" (sorrel and sweetgum bark) and a "drawin' salve" (chestnut-oak bark mixed with equal parts of "mutton tallow, pine resin and coon root"). For "small cancers, malignant or not": a salve made of the whites of two eggs, two teaspoonfuls of salt, one tablespoonful of bee honey, and a teaspoonful of bluestone dust...
There, early this month, came the local members of the Church of God, bent on a three-week revival for the healing of bodies and the saving of souls. They put up an open-sided shelter roofed over with sweetgum boughs, and covered the clay ground with sawdust. They filled the place with chairs and benches, put up a little pulpit and installed two big amplifiers...