Sarah Rotch Arnold letter to Charity Rotch, Mulberry Grove, 10th mo 18th 1822

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	       Mulberry Grove  10th  Mo  18th  1822
    Thou wilt be astonished my dear Aunt after the accts
you have had of my long confinement to receive tidings
of me so far from home-  it is very unexpected to myself
though I have been gradually improving for two months.
I believe I wrote thee I was trying a poultice of rock-
weed, which I wore for a week or 10 days.  It had the
effect which we had desired to produce by other applications
nearly 100 pustules came out & filled, resembling Dr.
Read said, those of small pox; they were very sore
but, I believe very useful, nothing before had roused
the circulations- when this application ended I received
 from Phila 6 bottles of Swains celebrated Panacea, a
Syrup which has been very useful in purifying
the blood in some dreadful cases in that city,
& which is particularly recommended for scrofula
of which nature the Physicians generally are inclined
to think my case partakes, tho in a very mild form.
I have followed it for 2 months, taking a wine glass
full morning & evening, - this my friends have great
faith in, I am evidently better, but I attribute it
partly to our ceasing to make applications, a tight
swathe & flannel are all we are now doing- there
has appeared some change in my system since I
commenced with the Panacea. I more easily perspire
& after the 3rd bottle the blood was plainly felt forc-
ing its way into the blood vessels about the knee
& in the foot, so that they looked quite swollen before
the natural circulation was restored, which seems was
to be the case & that deadly coldness no longer troubles me