SEGMENT: HEALTH & FARM-EQUIPMENT
Bert Aikman>UIS Collection A's>UIS Collection, Segment 18
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- HEALTH
- Bert discusses several medicines he used as a child & young adult. Calomel is made from mercury (diluted it was called "blue-mass") & was used as a laxative. Mentions that castor seed is poisonous & would kill horses. Took castor-oil with soda-water. Castor-oil also used as lubricant for machinery. Mentions treatment for colic & open wounds. (addenda item# 40, see Aikman 5, Clip# 773)
- FARM EQUIPMENT
- Bert describes hickory hoops used to bind cotton bales & seeder used to separate seeds from cotton fiber. Hot, dusty work in cotton-gin & many workers were negroes who sang at quitting time. Discusses grading of cotton, compressing 500 lb bales & "niggers' lifting them. "….those niggers were treated terrible." (addenda item# 41, see Aikman 5, Clip# 773)
