1364. Remove a sty by picking up a rock, spitting on it, and returning it to its place.

1365. To keep off sun-stroke, put a wet cabbage leaf on the head.

1366. If you have a sun pain in your head, clip a small bunch of hair from the top of your head and place it in a branch running from west to east. Mountains

1367. If you have a tape-worm, get a handful of the bark of the root on the north side of a mulberry tree and boil it in a gallon of new milk; take this mixture for three days before the full, and three days before the change, for three moons......Blue Grass

1368. To cure tetter, wear a brass ring on your thumb..............................Southern Kentucky

1369. Thrush in a child can be cured if a person who has never seen his father will blow his breath three times into the child's face for three days...........................................Blue Grass

1370. You may cure thrush by putting the blood of a chicken into the child's mouth........Mountains

1371. To cure thrush, place a lock of the child's hair into a hole in a tree...............Central Kentucky

1372. Rainwater from a stump will cure thrush.

1373. Thrush in a child can be cured by washing the child's mouth with nine sage buds......Mountains

1374. For thrush, take three bunches of green sage of three buds each; rake each bunch through the mouth; hang the three bunches before the fire; when they dry, the child will be cured. .Mountains

1375. The seventh son or daughter by blowing into the mouth of a child will cure thrush...........................................Western Kentucky

1376. To avert thrush, drink water from a man's right shoe ..............................Mountains

1377. You can cure thrush in a child by giving him to drink water that has been tossed in a stranger's right shoe from heel to toe three times.. Mountains

1378. Cure thrush by having the child drink water out of an old shoe......................Mountains

1379. As a cure for thrush, place nine sow-bugs (little white insects found under stones near dwellings) in a small sack and wear it around the neck for nine days.

1380. To cure a child of thrush, let a stallion snort into the child's face.....................Mountains

1381. The wearing of amber beads around the neck will help teething.................Central Kentucky

1382. Black wooden beads worn about the neck will avert the pains of teething................Blue Grass

1383. Black hen's brains make babies' teething easy.................................Central Kentucky

1384. For a baby's teething, let it have nine pieces of burdock root on a string around its neck....................................Central Kentucky

1385. Rub an unbroken egg shell on a baby's gums, to ease the pains of teething............Mountains

1386. Suspend a borrowed egg in a paper sack from the ceiling, to cause the baby to cut its teeth easily___...........................Western Kentucky

1387. Sore gums in a baby may be cured by the application of a groundhog's brains..........Mountains

1388. Put the eye-tooth of a hog about the neck of a child, to keep it from having a hard second summer. (This tooth is found with a hole through the center) ............................Central Kentucky

1389. For sore gums, let the child wear a necklace of

"Job's Tears" (a kind of smooth, gray bean) about its neck.

1390. To aid a baby in cutting its teeth, rub a minnow or other small fish on the baby's gums.... Mountains

1391. To make all teething pains in a child cease, fasten about its neck in a small cloth "poke" or bag the right front paw of a ground mole.

1392. Make a baby's teething easy by putting a quarter of a dollar around its neck.

1393. For teething, cut off a rabbit's head, roast the head with the hair on, take the brains out, and rub them on the gums................Blue Grass Negroes

1394. Rub warm and raw rabbits' brains on the baby's gums .............................Mountains

1395. A snail or slug is placed on the gum for tooth-ache...........................Western Kentucky

1396. If you put a string of warm seed roots about a baby's neck, its teething will not be painful........................................Mountains

1397. For teething, use a necklace of whole spice soaked in whiskey ..........................Blue Grass

1398. For toothache, make the gums bleed, put the blood on a long cotton string, and tie the string around a dogwood tree at a place where an incision has been made in the bark............Western Kentucky

1399. To cure a toothache, steal a dishrag and bury it... .......................North-eastern Kentucky

1400. For toothache a faith doctor writes, "Gaffa, gaffa, gaffa," on the wall. With a nail he points at each letter, at the same time asking the sufferer if the tooth feels better. When he reaches a letter where the tooth is said to be better, he drives in the nail, and the toothache ceases......Western Kentucky

1401. If you keep a hog's jaw tooth, you will not have a toothache ..........................Mountains

1402. To cure toothache, cut a wart off a horse's leg and rub it on the gums...........Western Kentucky

1403. For toothache, carry the skull of a horse as far as you can, holding its teeth with your teeth..........................................Mountains

1404. To cure toothache, choke a mole with your hands behind your head and hang one of its feet around your neck.........................Mountains

1405. For toothache, secure a tooth from a live mole and rub this on the aching member. Western Kentucky

1406. Avert or cure toothache by cutting your nails on

Friday.

1407. You can cure toothache by promising not to cut your nails or do similar things on Sunday........

.................................. Mountains