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Mrs. Polly Clarke became a
doctress in her home located at 361 Broad Street in
Providence in 1861.
As a female physician, she
put out her own wholesale and retail medicines from
her home and an office located at 36 Stewart Street
located near Broad in 1864. She claimed that her
Indian Vegetable Compound would cure many ailments
such as salt rheum, scrofula, humors, erysipelas,
King's evil, ring worm, liver complaints, asthma,
dyspepsia, headaches, pimples, blotches, ulcers,
and just about everything else that arose from
impurities of the blood.
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She also put out a Salt Rheum
Salve which took care of some of the ailments
listed above. Her Dysentery Cordial was a cure for
dysentery, diarrhea, cholera morbus, and other such
problems. She also produced a Female Regulator for
'obstructions'.
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