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Interview of Pat Bates by Denise Combs. Bates discusses home remedies for medical ailments. Interviewer's description- "Pat Bates gives a mixture of home remedies and superstition practices for curing diseases. A lot of good information is given on the different kinds of roots, herbs, etc. that you can use to make medicines and salves such as yellow root and burr-vine weed. She tells of such practices as using urine to cure and earache and rubbing pennies on warts to get rid of them."
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