an item was written in a relatives will that stated machinery for
manufacturing digitine was to be given to a certain person.  My
question is what is digitine?  I thought it was a part of digitalis,
digoxin but have not found anything similar except Digibin.  I don't
know that digitine is even a medical whatever.  Any help will be
appreciated.

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Request for Question Clarification by leapinglizard-ga on 12 Jun 2005 15:46 PDT

Are you referring to Hervy Laney's will of 1901?

Digitine sounds to me like the name of one of the patent medicines
that were so popular in that era.

leapinglizard

Leapinglizard is correct (as is often the case)...Digitine was the
name of a nostrum that appears to have been sold locally in the
Cumberland,Md. area, as evidenced by this ad from an 1894 edition of
The Evening Times, which was then published in Cumberland, Md:


http://home.ripway.com/2005-3/279856/digitine.bmp


I wish the image were a bit clearer, but you should have no problem
making out the two references to Digitine in the ad itself.


Let me know if there is anything more I can do for you.


pafalafa-ga


search strategy -- searched historical newspaper files for [ digitine ]

You did good, I don't know how you found it but the individual that
asked me to look who is a relative of the person who wrote the will,
will just be thrilled that you found the answer. That was the correct
will.  I am a nurse, so my curosity was peaked also.  Thank you for
your time.  I have summitted to pay you $20.00, I hope I did the
account correctly, if not please let me know and I will resubmit.

Thanks so much for the kind feedback.  If you have the chance, let us
know how the relative reacts to the find.

paf