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Description
Handwritten recipe for "preventing cooties" from the diary of an unknown female author, 1918. She was possibly a resident of Memphis, Tennessee. The recipe is on the first page while the rest of her diary consists of her daily domestic activities and visits from family and friends.
The recipe states, "After bathing rub inside of the underclothing with a mixture of four parts of mercurial ointment and one part of vaseline or lard."
Identifier
sc.0308.001_002.001
Date
1918
Keywords
Mary Ardenne Hinson, scrapbook, homeopathy
Recommended Citation
"Recipe for Preventing Cooties, 1918" (2022). Documents. 5.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-hinsonma1/5
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