The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-09-29
Absurd s'uemedIes.
A BOOK UF NONSENsE-GURING DTs
EASES BY WORDS AND SIGNS

John George Holman is not gen.
orally recognized as one Of Berks
county's authors and writers, yet be
has published a work which found
considerable sale throughout the
country. 1t is a small volume Of p
pages, and lisa collection Of mystic
rious and invaluable arts and RENE
dies for man as we'll as beasts, with
many proofs of their virtue and eff
cheney in healing diseases, etc, the
greater part of which was never seen
until 1920"
The book starts out with a remedy
for Mysteries. The hand is to be laid
on the heart, and the following words
spoken: "Matrix, patrix, lay thyself
right and safe, or thou or l shall on
the third day Gil the grave"
For bysteria and colds, this RENE
dy is given. 1t must be strictly at
tended to every evening. ut is to
put off your stockings and rub the
flesh carefully between the toes"
To cure worms the following must
be repeated three times. At the end
of the first time the patient must be
tapped once in the back, Twice for the
second, and three times for the third.
The words are MARY, COPS moth
er, traversed the land, holding three
worms close in her hand one white,
the other was black, and the third
was red.n
If YOU are being slandered and
want to prevent it, take off your
shirt and turn it wrong side out, and
then run your thumbs down to your
thighs"
Following words repeated will cure
collie: II war; We collie iendsl There
is one sitting in judgment who
speaketh. Therefore beware ye
iends."
Following is said to be a good rem
edy for fever: Good morning, dear
Thursday. Take away from (me)
the II gold tevers. o Thou. dear
Lord, take them away This must
be used on Thursday for the first
time, on Friday for the second time,
and on Saturday for the third time
and each time thrice"
As a ~precaution against injuries be
advises q person to carry the right
eye of a wolf fastened inside of his
right sleeve.
"If you call on another to ask for
a favor, take care to carry a little Of
the fve-fnger grass with you, and
you shall certainly obtain what you
want"
ITO catch plenty of fish, take rose
seed and mustard seed, and at the
foot of the weasel, and hang these in
a net, and the fish will certainly col
lect there"
The root of iron weed tied around
the neck will cure running ulcers, and
will cure piles if the roots are boiled
in honey and drank; it also clears
the breath. Children who carry it
are easily educated and grow up
cheerfully and very well.
For wild fire repeat the words :
wild fire and the dragon flew over
the wagon; the wild FIRE abated, and
the dragon skeated." COX
To stop pains or smarting in a
wound: Cut three small twigs from
a tree, all to be cut of in one cut, rub
one end of each twig in the wound,
and wrap them separately in a piece
of white paper, and put them 10 a
warm dry place"
To destroy warts: Roast chicken
feet and rub the warts with them,
then bury the feet under the eaves.n
To cure t~oothache: Stir thetooth
I with a needle until blood flows: then
soak a thread in it; take -four and
make a paste and spread it on a rag.
Wrap this rag around the root of an
apple tree, and tie il with q thread"
To banish whooping cough cut
three small lunches of hair from the
crown of the head of a child that has
never seer its father, sew this up in
an unbleached rag aud hang it around
the persons neck.
For burns, say '1urn | blow on
thee )" it must be blown on three
times in the same breath, like the fire
by the sun.
To stop bleeding, count City back
wards, and when you have arrived
at three it will all be oyer.
If you burn a large frog 20 ashes,
and mix the ashes with water, you
will obtain an ointment that will, if
put on any place covered with hair,
destroy it and prevent it from grow
ing again.
A pow-wow for sore mouth reads:
"If you have the scurvy, or quinsy
too, | breath three times on you."l
For consumption say: "Consump-
ton, l order thee out of the bones
into the flesh, out Of the flesh upon
the skin, out OF the skin into the
wilds of the forest.n
Another cure for burn reads.
Three holy men wen out walking.
They did bless the heat and the burn.