To cure a boil, apply a poultice made by boiling bitterweed in milk. To cure an abscess, get a human bone from a graveyard and rub it over the abscess, then bury the bone under a waterspout of a roof, where neither sun or moon can shine on it. To have one boil means that you will get nine others. To heal an ulcer of the stomach, take a teaspoonful of sulfur with a glass of warm water daily for ten mornings. To rid yourself of a boil you must always burn the bandages.
Every boil is worth five dollars.
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