Reuben Sanders Nance, Jr.

Lived in Saint Clair Co., Mo.

Information on the children was found in a notebook that was to have belonged to Reuben Saunders Nance.

Also in the same notebook was the following Family remedies and prescriptions:

(Feb 8, 1891) FOR SICK HORSE - Take Ticture (sic)(?) 6 drops on tongue. In one hour give Belladonna 6 drops. W. L. Nance

-- NOTE: Like a number of later entries, this entry appears to have been made by William Lesson Nance, Reuben's son.

(undated) CURE FOR WHOOPING COUGH - 2 oz. (?) beat fine and mix with 1 pint good whisky, 2 oz. tincture of Spanish Flies, 2 oz. tincture of assafoetidae. For a grown person 60 or 70 drops 3 times per day. For children 20 or 30 drops 3 times per day. All the above remedies should be

mixed togethert.

(undated) A RECEIPT FOR THE DROPSY - Take 2 gallons of good apple vinegar put in a pot put (?) (?) in simmer down to one quart take one handful of camomile and one handful of (swee modly?) each must be tops and roots as mutch as a man can grip cut them both fine and put them in an earthen

pitcher poarthe liqeur on it keep warm twenty four hours, strain it threw a cloth ad one pound of brown shoogar bottle it up take a large table spoonful three times a day.

(undated) The 25 day of October, for the present situation of Mr. Nance make the dogwood bark tea strong by Seeping in cold water and let it be half of the quanity tak one handful of tanzy and take four sprigs of hoarhound beet or squeez and steep in cold water til strong.

(undated) A (?) for the lungs - Take one handful of hoarhound and one half handful of dogwood bark and nearly one handful of (Essecampaign) and half as much (crimphoy) as (Essecampaign) and (?) it take (?) galls of honey (?)