155 years ago today - Mar 24, 1859

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] ... I received the following receipt for dissolving & Curing the stone in the Bladder [Kidney Stones]: Drink freely of fennol tea of the seeds & stocks And for the gravel sweeten [yor?] tea with Honey and sugar mixed, that it will Cure the gravel.

... I Spent the evening at President Youngs. The fore part of the evening was spent reading Napoleon. A messenger arived from Rush valley informing us that after Spencer was knocked down they sent for an army Surgeon who examined his head. Found his skull was broaken & one part laped on the top of the other. He sawed a peace of the Skull out & placed it together and they think there is a Chance for him to get well. ...

[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

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