Roll a raw egg in soot and eat it for yellow jaundice. Rub some of your saliva on the bottom of a kettle and then rub the same finger over your kernel to take it away. Stand on tiptoe while eating sour pickles on board a ship and you will never be seasick. Swallow a piece of salted pork for seasickness. Swallowing any kind of seed, especially grape seed, will cause appendicitis.
Tea made from cat-tail flowers is good for appendix trouble.
Tea made from the lily of the valley is good for heart trouble. Test the water with your feet, then with your hands, and you will not have cramps when swimming. The third paralytic stroke is always fatal. There will be no danger from sunstroke, if you wear elder leaves under your hat. To cure a women who has epileptic fits, give her three times a day a tablespoonful of urine from a man whom she has never seen and do the same for a man with the urine of a strange woman.