Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 454
t you ought tohave added that when you cut yourself, break open asmokeball, and put the inside over the cut; it will stopthe bleeding. We always have some in the house. Theyare generally found in damp ground. Your new friend, Emma Isabell Abbe. Shake the spores from a puffball on the waterin a… … stanching the flow ofblood from a wound.Hold a puffballseveral minutes underwater, and then see if the spores are still dry and will puff out in thesmoke form. Of what advantage is it to thepuffball to have the spores not easily affected THE PUFFBALL SPORES PREVENT THE WATER FROM WETTING THE…
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