A GOOD REMEDY FOR THOSE
WHO CANNOT KEEP THEIR WATER.Burn a hog’s bladder to powder, and take it inwardly.TO REMOVE A WEN
DURING THE CRESCENT MOON.Look over the wen, directly towards the moon, and say Whatever grows,
does grow; and whatever diminishes, does diminish.” This must be said three
times in the same breath.
TO DESTROY FIELD-MICE AND MOLES.
Put unslaked lime in their holes and they will disappear.TO REMOVE A SCUM OR
SKIN FROM THE EYE.Before sunrise on St. Bartholomew’s Day, you must dig up four or five
roots of the dandelion weed, taking good care to get the ends of the roots;
then you must procure a rag and a thread that have never been in the water;
the thread, which dare not have a single knot in it, is used in sewing up the
roots into the rag, and the whole is then to be hung before the eye until the
scum disappears. The tape by which it is fastened must never have been in
the water,
FOR DEAFNESS, ROARING
OR BUZZING IN THE EAR,
AND FOR TOOTHACHE.A few drops of refined camphor-oil put upon cotton, and thus applied to
the aching tooth, relives very much. When put in the ear it strengthens the
hearing and removes the roaring and whizzing in the same.