Arts And Remedies. Pain

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"Pow-Wows, or Long Lost Friend", by John George Hoffman, [1820],

A Remedy To Relieve Pain.

Take a rag which was tied over a wound for the first time. and put it in water together with some copperas;

p. 19

but do not venture to stir the copperas until you are certain of the pain having left you.