Mashed Potatoes?(BHS: Last Visit)

Our last visit to the BHS is one I will not forget. We learned about a guy from Brooklyn named Gabriel Furman. Gabriel spent a lot of time writing about his discoveries in Brooklyn. My group and I read a few of his discoveries. As my group looked at his writings, something caught our eye.. a cure for cancer? My group was really interested to read this. We read that Gabrielle had a cancer on his nose and he put mashed potatoes on it, and later it went away. We were confused,”a cancer on his nose?, does he mean pimple?” was repeated in my group. We asked a librarian at the BHS, she said that back then they used the word cancer very loosely as we use the word flu today. That makes a lot of sense, there we were thinking we had a actual cure for cancer. Later on in my studies I do plan on visiting the BHS, a lot of information I have learned there really interested me. Im glad i got to experience the visits, and I will try not to make this one my last, as I am sure my classmates feel the same.