Cassie DePeckel
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
An electrician fixed the steam oven to sterilize equipment,
A few woodworkers have started making chairs from lumber scraps around campus.
A former shop teacher fashioned water glasses from old beer bottles and silverware from corrugated tin.
But the men can't make everything.
The ward still needs medicine.
That's where Stuart comes in.
She grew up in the Philippines, so she knows a variety of local remedies.
And today, she's teaching the other nurses.
She peels the onion and slices it.
Then she drops some into a beer bottle glass and pounds the slices with a blunt dowel to free the juice.
Once she has an inch in the bottom, she drops in a sugar cube and crushes it.
She holds up the cloudy solution.
Have patients with coughs gargle this.
I know it sounds strange, but it works.
After this, Stuart holds up the leaves from one of the guava trees around campus.
Do you see the ridges?
That's how you know it's guava.
Brew them into tea.
It's very good for dysentery.
She shares other tricks.