Year: 1876

the old mill il one will only wear a buck


skin shirt fitted tight aud put on Will .


wet, and worn till it Is dry. An amulet


made Of a piece Of mountain ash or the
| foot Of rabbit can be worn if the first


remedy fails


The Shetlanders cure burns and scalds


by breathing three times on the sore.


and repeating each time:


'Hore comes 10 cure a burnt sore:
II the dead knew what the living endure,
The burnt sore would burn no mere"


If that don't prove successful, the fol-


lowing will


can angel came from the north,
And he brought cold and frost
An angel came from the south,
Aud he brought heat and fre:
Fns 10, an; angel ,hi rom ON, the north


To cure fits, great faith used to be
placed in rings made from silver coin


and voluntarily given to the afflicted per.


son by acquaintance Of the opposite sex


When this balm" fails, then the only


remedy is to send to the old doctor


whose very nose is an emblem Of the


truth that he is death on fits


Sir Kenelm Digby. ". D.. in zoos, in


his work called Choice aud Experiment


tai Receipts in Physick and Chirurgery,"


gives "A sympathetic cure for the tooth


ache" IL is as follows: with an iron


nail raise and cut the gum from about


the tooth till il bleed. and that some Of


the blood stick upon the nail; then drive


it into a wooden beam up to the head


after this is done. you shall never have


the tooth ache in all your life This


remedy admits Of no failure wherever IL


has been thoroughly tried. the doctors


directions being exactly followed


Peter Levens, Master of Arts in OK.


ford, and, student in Physick and Chirur.


gerry" in his Pathway to Health, which


was printed for j. W. and sold by
Charles Tym, at the Three Bibles on


London Bridge, MDCLXVI, among nu


merous other prescriptions. gives this
one, for "a man or woman that II in con-
sumption. Take a brass pot, and fill il


with water, and set on FIRE, and put a
great earthern pot within th at pot, and
then put in those the pare, Is following


Take a cock. and pull him alive. then
flea off his skin, then beat him in pieces.
take dates, a pound, and slit out the
stones. aud lay a layer Of them in the
bottom Of pot, and then lay a piece OF
the cock, and upon that some more Of
the dates, and take succory, endive aud
parsley roots, and so every layer, one up.
on another and put in fine pearl, and
cover the pot as close as may be with
coarse dow, and so let il distill a good
while, and so reserve IL for your use. till
such times as you have need thereof :.


Ii might be supposed that these
charms and incantations are for the
common people" only. and that ladies
and gentlemen OF quality never believe
IN such triAes but the following. which
is ascribed, for want Of better authorship.
to Lord Bacon. will prove that the suppo- /
-ition is baseless. As | find this para
graph in print il must be true. The quo |
tation marks and all look like Lord BA- /
cons.


The taking away of warts by rubbing /
them with somewhat that is afterward /
put to waste and consumed Is a common
experiment; but do apprehend it rath
r because Of mine own experience.
had from childhood a wart on one OF my
fingers; afterward, when ! was about six
teen years old, being then at Paris. there
grew upon both my hands a number OF
warts lat least an hundred) in a months
.pace; the English Ambassadors lady.
" no was a woman far from superstition.
told me one day she would help me away
with my warts, whereupon she got .
piece Of lard with the skin on, and rub
bed the warts with the fat side. among
he rest the wart which | had from my
childhood then she nailed the piece OF
ard with the fat toward the sun, upon
post Of her chamber window, which wa
% the South. The success was that
within FIVE weeks space all the warts
vent quite away. and that wart which /
iad endured for company; but at the
est | did little marvel, because they
anne in so short a time. and might go
way in a short time again. but the going
Il that which had stayed so long doth
ct stick with me. They say the like i
lone by rubbing Of warts with green
lder stick, and then burYing the stick %


But for "whoOping cough the rene
lies have a family name Of great anti
uity-viz: Legion" every one OF which
5 warranted to make the "whoops' one
ess. Time would fail me to enumerate
n Of them. but among the principal
emedies for this disease the following
an be tried.


Administering shell.lime; using a
rinking cup Of ivy; allowing a piebald
orse to breate on the patient; giving
ine fried mice. three each day. for three
ays in succession; tying around the pa
tents neck a bag containing caterpil-
lr passing the child nine times under
he belly and over the back of donkey;
eeding IL on currant cake made by a
roman who did not change her name on
citing married, or on bread and butter
made IN a house the master OF which i-
amed John and the mistress Joan; get
ing the owner Of a piebald horse TO say
fhat will effect a cure; holding toad
n the child's mouth, in order that il may
atch the disease giving the patient tor :
rink new milk out OF a cup made Of va
iegated holly; all Of which are in use TO Z
his day as iniallible" as Pope Plus TX
nd are full as valuable as the advice to
aren,s. on how to train up their chill.
ren, from a dyspeptic old bachelor. !
he public is warned not TO laugh while
sing any Of these sovereign remedies.
Dr that is not the time TO laugh The .
ubject itself presents several serious
ides, and unless a person can laugh out
{ the other corner OF his mouth the
Id grandmothers all prohibit laughing {
or fear the folks might think that {
his piece was written TO make them
lugh, ! have written these last lines :
Thich look so solemn just as a warning
n conclusion, the writer would add that G


any are concerned in the least upon
his grave question, these solemn sen G
enees are ito whom IL may concern.


The thermometer in Atlanta doesn't $
Dol around and play with the North Z
iind. A young man who attended