1213. Glandular swellings are treated with two-year-old marrow taken from the inferior maxillary of a hog ...........................Western Kentucky

1214. You can stop a goitre from growing by burying a live toad under the drip of the house... Mountains

1215. If you rub a goitre with a toad, it will go away... ...................................Mountains

1216. A gold bead necklace prevents a goitre or cures it..................................Mountains

1217. "Job's tears," (a kind of smooth, gray bean) tied around the neck, will cure a goitre.....................................North-eastern Kentucky

1218. If you have a goitre on your neck, rub a dead person's hand over it three times. As the body decays the goitre will disappear.......Louisville Negroes

1219. To cure grip, hang your hat on the bed post and drink whiskey until you see two hats.

1220. Rub the sap from a grape vine on your hair to make it grow............................Mountains

1221. Put burnt leather on a galled place on a horse to prevent the hair from coming out white. Mountains

1222. When a servant finds that her hair is falling out, she should seek a new situation, somewhat removed from her present one, in order to stop the trouble.

1223. For headache, apply brown paper and vinegar.

1224. One subject to headache may prevent it by carrying a buckeye in his pocket.

1225. For headache, use a poultice of cornmeal. Mountains

1226. You can cure headache by pressing the hand on the forehead so as to press each pulse-beating place.

1227. Plait the front hair into four plaits, to avert headache ........................Central Kentucky

1228. To cure a headache, place the hair that comes from the head in combing under a hidden rock somewhere .............................Mountains

1229. Carry one of your teeth around your neck, to keep off headache........................Mountains

1230. For headache, bruise a horse-radish leaf, wet it, and tie it to the head..........Central Kentucky

1231. Wear a snake-rattle in the hair day and night, to prevent headaches.

1232. You can cure a headache by swallowing a spider web.......................Western Kentucky

1233. Wear a match in your hair, to keep from having a headache.

1234. Cure hiccough by holding the breath and counting nine.

1235. To cure hiccough, take nine sips of water, count nine backwards, and then turn around nine times.

1236. If somebody tells somebody else to get you a drink, it will stop hiccough.....North-eastern Kentucky

1237. You can cure hiccough if you put the ends of both thumbs behind the ears and push inward..........................................Blue Grass

1238. You can cure hiccough if you frighten the victim badly.............................Blue Grass

1239. If you have a hiccough, think of your lover. If he loves you, you will not have it anymore.

1240. You can cure a child of hives by "scarifying," that is, by making three cuts in the child's back, mixing the blood with breast milk, and giving the mixture to the child to drink.................Mountains

1241. To cure a baby of hives; place a hot, moist cloth just under the shoulder blade, remove it, cut the skin two or three times with a razor; draw about fifteen or twenty drops of blood, and feed it to the baby.

1242. When you break out with hives, mix Irish potato peelings, peanut-butter, and lard; cook them to a syrup and rub with it.........Louisville Negroes

1243. To cure hollow horn, cut a gash in a cow's tail, put in salt, and sew up the wound... Central Kentucky

1244. If a horse hurts his feet, take a nail from the shoe and put it into a lard-can............Mountains

1245. May butter will make an ointment that will cure any ill; it never grows rancid. .Western Kentucky

1246. Carry a castor-bean for indigestion.

1247. For indigestion, boil chicken-gizzards and drink the broth.

1248. A sure cure for stomach trouble is a tea made from dog-fennel.

1249. A sure remedy for all kinds of stomach troubles is ginseng.

1250. A nutmeg carried in the pocket or in the clothes is a preventive for stomach troubles.

1251. Keep a goat with a herd of cattle, to keep off infectious diseases....................Blue Grass

1252. A mole's foot will keep off infectious diseases.......................................Blue Grass

1253. Kiss an injured spot to make it well.

1254. Iron gives strength. It may be given in the form of simple filings, rust of iron, or salt of steel........................................Blue Grass

1255. To cure itch in the toe, tie a yarn string around the toe which is affected.................Mountains

1256. Roll the baby in sulphur and lard for itch...........................................Mountain

1257. To cure itch, rub the body with sulphur, wear your clothes three weeks without change or bath, and bury the clothes. Later dig them up in the dark of the moon and launder them........Mountains

1258. For jaundice, catch about a half-dozen "old sows"

(gray hearth bugs) and boil them in water. Then stir into the mixture enough meal to make a cake. Place it on the chimney piece. When the cake is done, the person will be well. (It is not necessary to eat it.)....................Central Kentucky

1259. Wet the index-finger in the mouth, rub it on the bottom of a "pot-vessel" of some sort, and make a cross-mark on a kernel under the jaw, to make it disappear ..........................Mountains

1260. To cure kernels which result from a bruise or sore, cross them with soot from the chimney.

1261. For an affection of the kidneys, pills made of pine-pitch are taken.

1262. For gravel or other kidney disorders, drink tea made from nine buds picked from as many different stalks of mullein.