1156. If you feed a cow a soiled dish rag, she will recover her cud.

1157. If you place a bowl of water under the bed at night, your feet will not cramp.

1158. Croup is treated with skunk oil, taken internally and applied externally.

1159. Carry sulphur in the pocket, to keep off cramps in the arms and legs...................Mountains

1160. Tie a string of yarn around the ankle, to cure a cramp.

1161. A leather band worn around the wrist prevents cramp......................Western Kentucky

1162. Wear a brass ring, to keep off cramp.. .Mountains

1163. To prevent the feet from cramping, place the shoes with the toes pointed under the bed.

1164. You can cure a crick in the neck by rubbing the neck against a tree where a hog has rubbed itself.. ..................................Blue Grass

1165. Wear amber beads, to keep away croup.

1166. Croup may be prevented by placing the baby's bare foot in the first snow which falls after its birth. ...........................Western Kentucky

1167. To avert cramp in the legs, place a pair of scissors or some other piece of steel in your bed...........................................Central Kentucky

1168. Wear a pot hook around the neck, to cure a crick in the neck.

1169. Tea made from elder bark peeled upward will cure diarrhoea..........................Mountains

1170. To cure diphtheria, put a part of a freshly killed chicken against the throat.....Western Kentucky

1171. The hair of a dog is good for its bite.

1172. If a dog that bites a person goes mad later, so will the person. Therefore kill the dog straightway.

1173. A madstone, a stone-like substance sometimes found in the body of a deer or other animal, will prevent the bite of a mad dog from producing hydrophobia.

1174. The herb angelica boiled in the urine of a healthy man-child is good for dropsy.........Blue Grass

1175. If you take a bess-bug and cut off its head, one drop of blood will flow. It will cure earache.................................Western Kentucky

1176. Three drops of blood from three different kinds of insects dropped into the ear will cure earache......................... Central Kentucky Negroes

1177. Cure earache by putting a lock of a negro's hair into the ear..................Central Kentucky

1178. Roast an onion in the ashes and then put the juice of it into your ear, to prevent earache again................................Northern Kentucky

1179. Blow smoke into the ear, to prevent earache.

1180. Rub the hand of a corpse over the face of one who has eczema.

1181. Epilepsy is kept off by the victim's wearing a hemp string around the throat.......Central Kentucky

1182. Epilepsy can be kept off by the sufferer's wearing bones of a rattlesnake around the neck.. Mountains

1183. A black cat's blood and a black chicken's will cure erysipelas ..........................Mountains

1184. Erysipelas is cured by "striking fire" over the patient's head.................Western Kentucky

1185. If you have your ears pierced, you will not have sore eyes.

1186. If you wear ear-rings, you will not have sore eyes.

1187. March snow is good for sore eyes.

1188. Bottled snow water is good for sore eyes.

1189. To wake up your foot when it is asleep, make a cross on your leg with a wet finger.

1190. To wash your feet in dish water will cure sore feet.

1191. Fill your shoes with corn and put a little water on it. Your shoes will thereafter never hurt the feet.

1192. If you will wear a bag of rhubarb around your neck, your children will not have club feet...................................Western Kentucky

1193. A remedy for frozen feet is to wrap the feet in the skins of rabbits killed in the dark of the moon............................................Mountains

1194. As a remedy for frozen feet, bury a crooked penny at the northeast corner of the cabin outside, where water drops from the eaves...........Mountains

1195. Frozen feet can be cured by wrapping them in the skin of a newly-killed rabbit, the fur on the outside.

1196. Your feet will not be frost-bitten if you wrap them with rabbit hide.....................Mountains

1197. For frost bite, bathe the feet in the running water from a stream that runs west.

1198. A pine knot placed in drinking water will prevent typhoid ...........................Mountains

1199. Place steel under the bed for fever; it draws out the electricity from the body.

1200. As a cure for a "fever" or cold blister, take wax from your ear and rub it on the blister.....................................Southern Kentucky

1201. If you have cold blisters, kiss a dog's forehead, and they will get well............Louisville Negroes

1202. One of the rattles of a rattlesnake will keep a person from having fits.................Mountains

1203. To cure freckles, go to a still branch in the mountains and bathe your face each day for nine days.. ..................................Mountains

1204. To remove freckles, wash your face in buttermilk.

1205. You may cure freckles by rubbing grass over your face before the dew is off.

1206. The first shower in May is said to cure freckles.

1207. To remove freckles, wash your face in dew off grass the first nine mornings in May.

1208. If on the first day of May you walk backward from your bed outdoors and then wash your face in dew., the freckles will leave.

1209. To remove freckles, wash your face with melon rind.

1210. To wash in water standing in an oak stump, will remove freckles.....................Mountains

1211. To cure freckles, go to a stone and step over it three times backward and then three times forward.

1212. To cure freckles, get up before the sun rises, go out to a wheat field, and wash in the dew.

Some say that this should be done for seven days.