The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-03-18

shrew mouse, touched by a sick person
and then pegged up alive in hole pre-
Yiously bored in an alder tree, viii
carry off the disease from the patient.
In many parts of England and Scot
land a piece of a mad dogs liver,
cooked and administered to the person
the animal has bitten, is highly es-
teemed as preventive against hydro
phobia. Or the heart will be extracted,
dried over fire and administered in
draught after having been first ground
to powder.
In Staffordshire, to cure consumption,
an egg is first boiled hard then the shell
is bored full of holes and it is buried in
an art heap. the theory being that as
the egg wastes, so shall the patients
complaint vanish and his strength in
crease.
To cure warts, the Lancashire people
rub them with piece of bacon stolen
from shop. But it is essential that
it be stolen.
Quite a we'll to do farmer was
| charged with the theft of a ham hash
er, valued at two pence. He pleaded
that he had taken it to rub on a wart
| from which his daughter suffered and
| that it would have been no good for his
purpose had he bought it in the ordi-
| nary way. The Magistrate discharged
him with caution. ...... i st.-.t.
Spiders have always figured largely
| in the annals of folk medicine. In
West Sussex many an old doctor still
| prescribes in bad cases of jaundice,
live spider rolled up in butter an swal--
lowed as a pill. The Glasgow work,
| ingman make pills of spiders web
mixed with starch and believe them to
| be excellent in cases of ague. f..
In Norfolk, when a child is ailing, a
common house spider is tied up in a
| piece of muslin and pinned over the
mantelpiece, and when the spider dies
! the child will have recovered from his
ailment. In Worcestershire it appears
! that a spider in a nutshell will ward off
toothache if worn in a bag around the
neck HAL. = .-. r..
Any one who is DESTROYS of curing
sore eyes is recommended in Aberdeen
shire to catch a live frog and lick its
! eyes with his tongue. After this he has
only to lick , any diseased eye and a
cure is effected. z-...... +.
The Wiltshire laborer wears the fore
legs of mole and one Of its hind legs
i in bag tied around his neck to secure
| him against rheumatism. In North
championships it is believed that toad
killed and hung in a bag around the
| neck of a fever patient will afford him
speedy prelief. .--r. ST.
To crawl under a bramble which has
| formed a second root is said by the
| peasantry of Essex to cure rheuma-
| tism. boils and other complaints The
arch must be complete.
In Aberdeenshire when a man is
seized with epilepsy the neighbors burn
| his clothes on the spot where he fell,
believing that the sufferer will thereby
| be made well. Another cure is to bury
| a cockerel at the same spot.
1 A cake made of the heart of a white
| hound baked with meal is recommend
ed in many of the southern slires as a
| certain remedy against commissions.
In Staffordsiire hanging an empty
bottle up the chimney is thought a USE
full thing in cases Of kidney trouble.
4 To cure collie in Cornwall the natives
will advise you in all seriousness to
stand on your head for a quarter of
an hour, The curious remedy, by the
4 way, was the ordinary treatment APP
piled formerly to people suffering from
poison, the belief being that the de-
leterious substance would run out by
/ the eyes, ##
1 A curious Irish cure for sore throat is
to apply salt herring to the feet. In
parts of Hampshire the snuff of a tai
| low candle is given upon sugared bread
and butter to ag.ue patients to eat
Leaning against a pair of elbows is
esteemed in West Essex a fine thing for
rheumatism. Water in which flint
| arrowhead have been boiled is said In
Cornwall to cure all manner of dis
eases.
1t Cambridgeshire 1t is believed that
the right eye of hedgehog fried in oil
| will yield a liquor which is an infallible
cure for warts But it is essential that
it be a right eye. j
Dried earwigs, pounded in wheaton
meal and mingled with honey, are the
favorite Lincolnshire remedy for many
complaints, including headache, vertigo
and failing sickness"
The Durham miners Believe that an
| eels's garter, worn around the naked
leg, is a sure preventive against cramp,
| A favorite remedy for collie in the
Black Country is a pigs liver dried,
| ground to powder, and mixed with
4 brick dust from the inside of a fur
mace. 1t is probably as ineffcacious as
| it is nasty =