She suffered from "chills & fever which many of the old settlers had."S he told of Aunt Hulda and Uncle Bill reading ads for cures in thenewsp aper. Aunt Hulda would send Bill to town, either walking or onhorseba ck to get the "evil tasting medicines until she almost hatedto see him w alking across the fields to her home for she knew she wasgoing to be d osed with a new cure."