Burke County NcArchives News.....William Sharpe Cured 1813
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Raleigh Minerva 1813
Friday, Sept. 8, 1812
FOR THE MINERVA-COMMUNICATION - In January, 1796, on a freezing morning, I was 
thrown from my horse into a creek, by which I got a slight contusion on the 
outside of my leg. Before I reached a house, that part was frost bitten, and 
in a few days it fell out in a large sore which by surgical aid was healed in 
three or four months. As I was occupied frequently in surveying land, and that 
tender part exposed to rubbing, it was alternately sore and well six or seven 
years, but as I advanced in age, it refused to heal, and became a fixed 
schorous ulcer, and at length ate down on my ankle joint, which was likely to 
become carious. Various applications by direction of different physicians were 
made to it without success. My relations in Burke County sent me to an old 
lady of about 60 years in June, 1812, who in three months cured my leg 
completely, when I was in the middle of my 70th year. What is most 
extraordinary is, that agreeable to the old lady's unqualified predictions, 
founded on more than 30 years' experience, and contrary to the opinion of 
every physician of my acquaintance, I have enjoyed unimpaired health now 
eleven months since the profuse issue has entirely dried. I suppose it is 
owned to the judicious use she made of the spirits of turpentine, leeches, 
poccoon root, etc. Her name is MRS. BRADSHAW; a married lady, illiterate and 
modestly obscure. She lives at Lovelady-ford, Catawba River, eight miles below 
Morganton. In my opinion she has profound skill in old and new sores on the 
human body cancers she will not undertake.
                                          WILLIAM SHARPE
Iredell, Aug. 20, 1813


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