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From the book
Practical Housekeeping, 1883
Poison by Ivy - An infallible remedy for poisoning by ivy, poison
oak and other poison vines and plants, is good rich butter milk in
which you have beaten some green tansy leaves until the milk is
thoroughly tinctured. Bathe the parts often (indeed, you could not
do it too often,) until relieved. Wet a cloth with the mixture at
night, and lay on, wetting as often as it feels dry.
How to Detect
Poison Ivy - The poison ivy and the innocuous kind differ in one
particular which is too easy of remembrance to be overlooked by
any one who is interested enough in the brilliant-hued leaves of
autumn to care for gathering them; the leaves of the former grow
in clusters of threes, and those of the latter in fives. As
somebody has suggested in a juvenile story book, every child
should be taught to associate the five leaves in a cluster with
the fingers on the human hand, and given to understand that when
these numbers agree they can be brought into contact with perfect
safety. It may spare our readers no little suffering to bear this
point in mind during their October rambles in the fields.
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