ranging from flax-seed for pneumonia, to bread with or without mustard for chest colds, sore throats and backs; to mustard and hot milk for a sore finger, to one made with the rind of salt pork which was used to extract splinters. A poultice made of the leaves of a plant called "evergreen" was good for just about everything; we have not been able to identify this plant, but it was not wintergreen ??? the leaves of this were used as a poultice for rheumatism. Chests were rubbed with goose grease and turpentine; there was nothing better to cure croup than kerosene with butter, melted on the stove until quite warm, and then rubbed on palms of the patient's hands and the soles of his feet ??? never on the chest. This was a sure remedy, and saved the informant, a mother of ten, many a sleepless night, and many a trip to the doctor. Among internal remedies, a bitter tea made from wild cherry bark was used to improve appetite; the spring tonic of molasses and ginger or molasses and brimstone (sulphur) was also a cure for gout. The thin wiry gold roots of gold-thread (Coptis trifolia) were dug up in the woods and boiled to make a solution used to swab out babies' mouths against "white mouth" or thrush. An extract of sarsaparilla berries was considered to be healthful as well as pleasant; when allowed to ferment, it packed quite a punch. This brings us to home-made wines, which were made from raspberries, elderberries, dandelions, rhubarb, parsnips, anything fermentable. With the advent of prohibition, moonshining and rum- running were strong in and around Stanhope . Rum-running and Moonshine Outwitting the exciseman has always been a favourite pastime of the British, and the people of British descent in this district have proved no exception. P.E.I , was the first province to have prohibition; the Prohibition Act of 1900 was fully implemented across the Island by 1906, and from then on alcoholic beverages were legally obtainable only from druggists, chemists, physicians and clergymen, "for medicinal pur?? poses"; the allowances were quite generous. Enforcement of the Act was never satisfactory, and rum-running became a very profitable way of life, and continued so for a number of years. World War II sounded the knell of prohibition, but it remained until 1945, when "An Act to amend the Prohibition Act " was signed, followed by the Temperance Act in 1948, which allowed two types of permit, individual and special, (druggists, physicians, clergymen). In 1961 this Act was amended to the Liquor Control Act , which is more or less what we have today. ... The Island possesses the dubious distinction of having the highest per capita incidence of alcoholism in the nation ( Canada 's Smallest 34