Collection of late-19c manuscript copies of home health remedies ALS to a woman from her sister suggesting treatments for asthma and dropsy copied (without attribution) from popular medicine handbooks

4-page letter to a sister suggesting a home remedy for asthma and advising if she “got the dropsy of the heart,” to go to the Invalid Hotel to be cured. The letter is undated, but other items in the group are dated ca. 1895.  She writes about the causes and physiological signs of dropsy and mentions a few successful treatment cases—she doesn’t mention her source, copying the text as if it were direct advice, though her idiosyncrasies in writing mechanics, especially capitalization, give her away. The first part of her letter repeats a recipe found in Dr. Chase’s Recipes. The content on pages 2-4 can be found in The People’s Common Sense Medical Advisor (pages 423-424 of the 1895 edition), a thick handbook of popular medicine distributed for free by Dr. Ray Pierce, founder of the “Invalid Hotel” and “World Dispensary Medical Association.” First published around 1875, the book was printed into the 1930s, reaching a 100th edition and boasting millions of copies in circulation. [with] eigh