A Cordiall Water

“This book is a collection of odd and old receipes to cure the ills of people and animals, mostly told to me by the believers.... “Myself, I do not know enough to say how or why one certain weed will calm a fever in a sick dog or antelope, nor can I guess what tells the beasts about that weed... All I can do is wonder, and everything that I have remembered and recorded here has made me do that.” For years Mary Fisher has been collecting lore about odd restoratives and remedies—medicines, nostrum