Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-06

warm aipltating half 20 the wound. Thoaol
OF modern use, this is BY no means a new
remedy, tor we find that the learned DR.
Don1e, Mr. Secretary Pepys, and Bishol
jeremy lay lor, all agree In ascribing to shi
application wonderful virtues In case of In
nammation and fevers. Indeed, it Is by NJ
means improbable that the good old bisho,
saw II used with marvellous effect in cases o
the dreaded stsqainacie.r .s
Many OF US have heard OF dock-leafs a.
being sure cure for nettie stings; and bow
| who use 1t say, while rubbing it on the
place stung:
tsNettle fn-d0ck out =
dock iA--Rettle OUT
Without being aware that it Is spoken Of by
the father Of English poetry, who says:
"Thou biddest me that T.shosild love another
All freshly new, and let Creseide go,
1t 18th not in my power, leve brother,
| And though might yet would not do 50;
| but canSt th0u play racken to and fro,
Nettle in, dock out; now this, now that Pandare2
| Now foule fall her for thy woe that care"
| TH0ENs IN THE FLESH, AND THE TOOTH
| a ACHE.
| To drive out a thorn, Devonshire folks
are said to bind piece Of snake skin on
| the opposite side of the hand; and In North
ampton the following verse is said to pre-
vent thorn from fostering In the flesh:
'.our Savior was of virgin born,
His head was crowned with a crown or thorn.
\ IL never cankered or feetered at all
And hope in Christ Jesus this never shall"
The list ofremedies for the toothache Is
led off by one from our philosophic acquain-
lance, Sir Kenelm Digby. In his "Choice
and Experimental Receipts In Physick and
Chirurgery,n printed IN 1868, he gives "a
sympathetic Cure for the Tooth-Ach:"
"With an iron nail raise and cut the gum
from about the teeth till il bleed, and that
some of the blood stick upon the nail; then
drive it into wooden beam up TO the head;
after this is done, you shall never have the
toothache in all your lifS."
In our time, a tooth from corpse IL
worn as an amulet, as is also the following
charm:
"Peter sat on marble stone, weeping.
Christ came past and said, What aileth thee,
oh my Lord, my tooth doth aehel'
Arise, Peter, go thy way, thy tooth shah ache
no more.'T
Or the sufferer repeat:
"AIl glory all glory all glory be to the
Father, and TO the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost.
Gas our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,
was walking in the garden of Gethsemane,
He saw Peter weeping. BE called him nm
to Him and said, peter, why weepest
thou?' Peter answered and said, Lord,
am grievOusly tor1nented with pain, the
pain OF my tooth.' Our Lord answered
and said, III thou wilt believe In Ne, and
My words abide with thee, thou shalt new
er feel any mOre pain In thy tooth Peter
said, Lord, / believe, help Thou my I'M
belief In the name of the Father, Son
and Holy Ghost. God grant me ease from
the pain in my teeth.'"
THE CONSUMPTION CONSUMED.
Peter LeVeus "Master Of Arts In OXFORD,
and Student in Physick and Chirurgery,"
in his pathway to HEALTH which was
printed for j. W, and sold by Charles
lynn, at the Three Bibles, on London
bridge, MDCLXVI," among numerous
other prescriptions, gives this one, for "a
man or woman that is In a cOnsumation :"
Take brass pot and I'LL It with water, and
set on the fire, and put great earthen pot
within that pot, aud then put In these par
GELS following: Take cock and pull him
alive, then flea off his skin, then beat him
in pieces; take dates, pound, aud slit out
the stones, and lay a layer Of them In tbs
bottom Of the pot, and then lay piece Of
the cock, aud upon that some more of the
dates, and so every layer, one upon another,
and put in fine gold and some pearl, and
cover the pot as close as may be with coarse
dow, and SO let IL distll good while, and
50 reserve It for your use till such time as
yon have need thereof"
LORD BACON AND HIS WARTS.
1t is supposed that these charms and In
carnations are simply in vogue among CON-
mon people, and always have been. Let
the gentle reader see what Lord Bacon has
10 say upon the subject:
"The taking away Of warts by rubbing
them with somewhat that afterward Is put
TO waste aud consumed, is a common ex-
pertinent; but l do apprehend II the rather,
because of mine own experience. | had
from childhood wart on one Of my fingers;
afterward, when | was about 10 years odd,
being then in Paris, there grew upon both
my bands number of warts Cat least sn
hundred) in months space; the English
Ambassadors lady, who was q woman
far from superstition, told me one day
she would help me away With my
warts, whereupon she got plecs of lard
with the skin On, and rubbed tha warts
with the fat side, and amongst the rest that
Rsrt which had from my childhood; then
she nailed the piece of lard with the Fat
toward the sun, upon post of her cham
Der window, wuich was to the south. The
success was that within five weeks space,
all the warts went quite away. and that
WAIT which had so long endured for COM
pany, but at the rest did little marvel, be-
cause they came in short time, and might
go away in short time again, but the 60
fr,r- - 81 ,aNT ubfal had Ia Z,
yet stick with me. They say the like Is
done by rubbing Of warts with green ell
derstick, and then burying the stick"
wHooPISG-coUGH, VIEWS, AND THE GAIL
LOWS.
For wens and swollen neck, rubbing with
the hand of 8 hanged person, or with q
piece of the rope used for his execution,
seems to be popular remedy.
And lastly, for a whooping cough. Ad
ministering shell lime; using drinking-eup
of ivy; allowing piebsld horse to breathe
on the patient; giving nine fried mice, three
each day, for three daysin succession; tying
around the patients neck bag containing
caterpillar; passing the child nine times
under the belly and over the back of
donkey; feeding it on currant cake
made by woman who did not change
her name on getting married, or ON bread
and butter made in house the master of
which Is named JOIN and the mistress Joan;
getting the owner Of piebald horse TO cay
what viii effect cure; holding a toad III
the child's mouth, in order that il may catch
the disease; giving the patient for drink
new milk ont Of q cup made Of vsriegsted
holly; all of which are in Use to Ibis day As
infallible, are respectfully dedicated, to-
gether with the other sovereign remedies |
that have preceded them, to all whom they !!
may concern.