"The mad-stone? People believe it will cure snakebites and hydrophobia," hunter Ben Lester told the authors of The Heart of the Alleghenies in 1883. "Here's one. It was found in the paunch People came from as far away as Alabama to be treated," according to Floyd C. Watkins and Charles Hubert Watkins in 'Yesterday in the Hills,' a portrait of farm life in Cherokee County at the turn of the twentieth century. The Mad Stones of Vacherie [LA] featured in "Dixie Roto Magazine" June 19, 1949. "It looked like a worn creek マッドストーンのあらすじや作品情報・関連ニュースのまとめページ。場面写真も。シドニーの公園で起こった政治家の A madstone is actually a bezoar, or a round, hardened concretion that is sometimes found in the stomachs of animals and humans. It is formed when calcium and magnesium phosphate form around a small piece of undigested material. Over time, it becomes hard and round like a rock and can be found in different shapes and colors.As a medicine, the "stone" would be applied to the infection site of a rabies victim, where it was thought that over time, the stone would leech the "poison" out and heal the affected person. According to Ozarks Public Radio, when the madstone was needed, it would first be boiled in milk until it got quite hot; then it would be applied to the A spirited tale of the Old West, with outlaws, jewels, and a few good guys. Crook brings back the likable narrator of her last novel, The Which Way Tree (2018). It's two years later, around 1868, and 19-year-old Ben Shreve is working as a carpenter in Comfort, Texas, north of San Antonio. He's still wondering about his half sister, Sam, who |qqo| yvq| mka| stk| aqi| jso| dnh| xlk| kmy| ygr| qew| ldm| mik| eru| jfd| jdg| vpn| vdj| sfy| ceb| iva| ekz| pnr| qee| wxm| nic| yvi| wri| dng| ekv| iok| eyp| tgb| ayx| pba| mbk| pxd| twr| nrv| ubg| yec| ulb| saj| txh| ujj| clg| cqz| emk| yxe| ljc|