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(Yesterday we received from Hal Williams of Lancaster, PA, three medications he had promised to send: a baby cream, a calindula flower extract for use on Jane’s decubiti, and a powder—also I believe based on the calindula—for her to take at 12 hour intervals for blue fingers, if any. Dissolve the powder in one-fourth of a glass of water and take a teaspoonful at 12-hour intervals.
(I gave Jane the dosage last night and this morning. This afternoon as I was changing her dressings, the little finger of her left hand began to turn darker as she lay on the bed. She didn’t tell me this or show it to me until I had wheeled her back to the card table. She said her position, lying on her side, had something to do with it. [The irony of it is that her left middle finger looks much better now. Jane wondered if the flower extract had anything to do with the little finger acting up; its color was mildly dark compared to the middle finger’s original dark blue appearance. But if the powder affected the little finger, why hadn’t it also bothered the middle finger?
[...] There was a jigger at the top that they used with powder. They kept powder in it, I don’t know what for. [Jane laughed.] They made bullets and put the powder into them. The powder and bullets were kept separate until they were put into the gun, though one or two bullets were always kept ready.
“They … they made bullets and put powder into them. The powder and bullets were kept separate until they were put into the gun, though one or two bullets were always kept ready. [...] The men didn’t want to keep the powder and bullets together. Sometimes the powder was rusty and sometimes whitish. [...]
[...] There was a jigger at the top that they kept powder in — I don’t know what for.”