Andrew
Calvin Walker
was a doctor in Forkvale,
Norma, Caryville,
and elsewhere over the years until the early 1920s,
when illness prevented him from practicing. He rode
on horseback and did use a variety of powered medicines
and such. Below is a page belonging to his grandson,
Robert, son of Ruby, with the recipes for a few of his
homemade treatments.
Click the page for a larger version.
Liniment
1 Pt. apple Vinegar
¼ pt. spts. turpentine
1 oz. Gum Camphor
1 oz. Lye soap
2 Eggs
Rose Treatment
Boil Butternut bark all day in kettle, strain,
add small polk root and 2 blood roots. Boil tender[,]
strain, boil down, stir in madder shape[?] in
pill form, use 2 or 3 at nite twice a week
and Powder gum Camphor and English Rosin (equal
quantity) - boil to pill form use one 3 times
per day
Neuralgia
1 pt. whiskey
Guiacum (size of walnut)
2 Tblspns Quinine
Sig: 1 spnful 3 a day
Rheumatism
1 Dr.[?] Iodide Potassium
2 Drs. Bicarb Potassium [uses " after Bicarb]
wine Colchichum "see 6 Drs."
water - 4 oz.
Tspn 3 time day
Comp Carth. Pills twice week
