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From: "Michael Lewis" <>
Subject: Re: [MAMiddle] Influenza
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 11:47:25 -0800
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It's time to drop the influenza thread. It's gone long beyond genealogy.

Thank you,

Michael lewis
MAMiddle list moderator



On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Dora Smith <> wrote:

> Or else he wanted it to treat the fever - my grandmother used moonshine in
> a
> pinch to give an alcohol rub to a man with a high fever from pneumonia.
> She thought it saved his life.
>
> Yours,
> Dora Smith
> Austin, TX
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "LORETTA DAVIS" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 11:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [MAMiddle] Influenza
>
>
> > The doctor was right. Whiskey cuts the flem loose and helps the body get
> > rid of the toxins. I have drank many hot todies in my lifetime. Nothing
> > better for colds.
> > Loretta Davis
> >
> > wrote:
> > My aunt was 9 and she remembers the doctor coming to the house.... My
> > aunt
> > lost both of her parents (within one week) and she remembers the doctor
> in
> > the
> > kitchen crying "if I had some whiskey I could save some of these people"
> > Now, that is just what she tells me and of course I don't know if it was
> > factual as she was s o young.
> >
> > My father joined up with his best friend and went to Fort Devens; within
> > one
> > week his best friend was dead of the flu.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > **************Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on AOL Living.
> > (
> http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-duffy/
> > 2050827?NCID=aolcmp00300000002598)
> >
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--
Michael Alan Lewis

11th Generation lineal male descendant of Edmond Lewis of Lynn

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