“Golden Treasure”
As written by Leon T. Hurtt, of the Pond’s Extract Company.
"In the early 1840’s, Theron T. Pond, a resident of Utica, New York, became interested in, and associated more—or less, with a tribe of Indians known as the Oneida tribe then located in Central New York.
He found that they were using for burns, boils and wounds of every description a ‘tea’ made by their Medicine Man from a species of bush known as ‘witch hazel,’ a shrub supposed by them to grow only in Central New York.
The Medicine Man made his extract by steeping the shrub in an ordinary teakettle. The liquid which he obtained was colored but as clear as water, and had a peculiar aroma obtained from no other shrub."
He found that they were using for burns, boils and wounds of every description a ‘tea’ made by their Medicine Man from a species of bush known as ‘witch hazel,’ a shrub supposed by them to grow only in Central New York.
The Medicine Man made his extract by steeping the shrub in an ordinary teakettle. The liquid which he obtained was colored but as clear as water, and had a peculiar aroma obtained from no other shrub."