As a croup remedy, poultice a baby's neck with bacon rind. As a cure for colic, let a baby drink tea made of catnip leaves. As a cure, rub wet cigar ashes over a ringworm. As a thrush cure, rinse out the baby's mouth with its father's urine. As a whooping cough cure, let a child drink tea made of the bark taken from the north side of an elm tree.
Baby boys are more difficult to break of bed-wetting than baby girls.
Beat egg yolks and stiffen with sugar as a good remedy for croup. Bed wetting may be cured, if the child is made to eat a head louse on a piece of bread. Blow tobacco smoke into some milk from your breast and administer a teaspoonful of it to a baby with colic. Boil a lump of alum in urine and give the child a teaspoonful every few hours to save a child from croup. Boil chestnut tree bark into a tea and give it to a child with whooping cough.