If anyone has pneumonia, take a tobacco mixture and fry it in lard and put it in a bag the size of their lungs, and lay that bag over them. If someone has pneumonia in the last stages, on the ninth day throw the covers all off and open all windows, and nine times out of ten they will pull through. Pneumonia can be cured by keeping a piece of freshly killed chicken on the chest. Poultice it on the feet, lungs and just everywhere to cure double pneumonia. Put in a cotton bag large enough to cover the lungs and just as hot as the patient can bear.
Tea made from the roots of the butterfly weed is good for lung trouble and pleurisy.
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