Flowering Beans
Half a pint of the juice of the leaves, (Bean, Common) when the plant is in the blossom, boiled gently with a pint of new cream, and half a pound of the best honey, in an unglazed earthen pipkin*, till half is consumed, is recommended for the cure of a cancer, or any other tumour, if applied thrice in a day.
Vid, Father Abraham's Almanack, published at Philadelphia for 1795.
*earthenware cooking pot used for cooking over direct heat from coals or a wood fire
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