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Croup - 1/2 tablespoon of sugar with warm melted lard poured over it. Instant cure!
Earache - Wrap hot tea leaves in a small piece of cloth and place in the ear -or- Blow a couple of puffs of cigar smoke into the affected ear. Instant cure!
Infection - Bread and milk soaked in water wrapped in a cloth. Apply to the infection.
Chest Cold - Mustard Plaster. Make a paste of dry mustard and flour and place between two pieces of cloth. Heat on the stove. Apply to the chest for about ten minutes.
Head Lice - Wash head with kerosene. Wrap in towels for a couple of hours, then wash with vinegar and follow with soap and water.
Warts - "Pow-Wow" the wart by gently rubbing it with a penny at sundown and saying a few "magic words." Wart will disappear in several days -or- Steal a piece of fat and rub it on the wart.
Cold - Burn an old rag; mix the ashes with goose grease and put it on your chest and back. Also could use mutton tallow.
Cough - Make tea out of the leaves of catnip and mix with sugar -or- Mix a spoonful of sugar and a spoonful of coal oil.
Pneumonia - Put on the chest manure fresh from the cow.
Headache - Pull plantain leaves from bogs and make a wrap with vinegar, sugar and salt. Apply to the head.
Fever - Put fresh onion on the feet and the stomach.
Yep, you just read the home remedies that were used in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Didn't they wonder why most people died by age 50. But, I guess I'll wait for my follow up visit with my doctor to see what the MRI showed and then decide if I need to buy an extra bag of potatoes. It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.
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