Manuscript Cures for Hydrophobia & Cancer

A 10" x 6" page that appears to have been removed from a ledger or journal with two entries that appear to be in different hands.The first is a cure for hydrophobia that entails mixing elecampane root, a puff of madder and a quart of new milk brought to boil in a water bath. This mixture is taken multiple times for several days.The second is a cure for cancer using white ash branches that have been burned to ash, making a strong lye boil as strong as possible, with lard and flour to make a plaster.Applied to Cancer for 48 hours "the torture endured by the patient is something horrible". This is followed by a half-strength plaster for three weeks, at the end of which "the cancer can be drawn out with ease and the patient is cured" Reverse is blank. No indication as to author, date, local etc. c1880s. (Inventory #: 26002367)