The Pulaskian., 1920-08-05

an inch in diameter began to appear on my hands. They would come with
 q smart sting just like the bite of one ! of those small flies, which bother stock so much of late years. When one appeared on my hand and I looked quick l saw that mosquito had just
 bit me and was flying away, so I con- cluded that the blisters were caused by mosquito bites, and the reason of
 them was that my blood was out of order. l took advantage of my first opportunity and had bad tooth
 pulled and concluded that nothing more would be necessary, but I was mistaken. Finally, I got the idea in my head that they were caused by poison oak Upon inquiry, I learned
 that poison oak blisters commenced
 just like mine, in between the fingers.
 also learned that the seven-year itch commenced the same way. As I knew
 there fere a few cases of the itch in
 the country I got scared and quit ram-
 bling for fear I would scatter it. Il
 learned that the remedy for the seven
 year itch is to bathe in tea made of polk root. However, before bathing in it you should remember that it is just little bit worse than taking
 bath in boiling water, but it is a sure cure. Two brothers. had this itch and they agreed to bathe one another in the polkroot tea They made their
 tea, closed the kitchen door and dis.
 robed, and one of the boys bathed the
 other all right, but he got some of it l on his own sores and found out how
 bad it hurt. so when his brother went to bathe him he opened the door
 and fled to the woods in the same garb in which our forefathers first appeared in the Garden of Eaen.
 l have heard numerous remedies for i the poison oak complaint, which I will give in the order of their merit, or rather according to the way they were recommended to me- Iodine was about { the best I tried; bath in tub of wa ter in which was dissolved a pound of [ cooking soda, was most highly recon mended, but it appeared to make it worse on me. have salve, which ap- pears to contain iodoform, which have found good. Pure hog lard is recom- and scattered some of the E worst spots for me- Salt and tincture of iron are each recommended. J. E. Pridmore of R. F. D. 2, Jacksonville, told me that there is a tall hollow which mules and horses eat; mules are especially fond of it and will eat it down to the ground, but if they eat it when the dew is on it causes sore mouth, but a never-failing remedy for it is coal oil He went | over this remedy several times, and E when I got to thinking about it yes terday, l concluded maybe he thought F was horse or mule and should try the same remedy. The poison was working on me so dreadfully yesterday that I could not stay for preaching and had to leave when Sunday school E closed, so I came home and tried the coal oil remedy, and it stopped the burning and itching immediately but when I retired at night it commenced on me as bad as ever.
 MT. Pridmore informed me that the poison oak vine had no effect on him and he could handle it any old way, and always had. One morning he was helping a man-elear land when tle the man yelled to him to Took out, that is poison oak Poison oak won't hurt me" he replied, and proceeded to pull up the obnoxious bush by the roots. Well. he got as bad. a case of
 the poisoning as anyone ever had. The man told him he would, too, because the poison oak bush never fails to get E in it's work on a man; it makes n6 ex- captions. It is similar to the vine, ! but is bush People whom the vine
 won't hurt had best beware of this 1 bush. After l had gotten well. two or three times I got to looking around and found that my trail to the spring ran through patch of these bushes;
 also that had cut some butterbean
 poles right in the center of the patch,
 and remembered that I was so hot
 and sweaty at the time that I could only cut two or three poles at time,
 for it was during our first real hot spell of weather when it was so hot
 that the heat was almost uncomfortable.
 With all the suffering those ungrate-