1263. You can cure a liver complaint in a child by having him touch his left foot with his right hand..........................................Mountains

1264. For difficult and painful menstruation, take the largest grown pullet you can get, that never laid an egg, pick her without scalding, beat her to pieces and boil her well. Let the patient drink the soup about the time of the change..........Blue Grass

1265. For measles, use "sheep-nanny" tea, that is, a drink made by pouring hot water over the dried manure of sheep.

1266. Flesh moles may be removed by the juice of milkweed.

1267. Some people have the power of removing flesh moles simply by rubbing grass over them.

1268. To ward off mumps, wear a silk cord around the waist.

1269. If from stumping your toe you break your nail, place it with two stones in a rag; then throw the rag over the house..................Mountains

1270. When a nail is stuck into the foot, drive the nail into the ground, to make the swelling go down.

1271. If a nail is stuck into the foot, do not drive the nail high into a door or wall because the swelling in the foot will then rise.

1272. If you stick a rusty nail into your foot, hide the nail where no one can find it, to prevent your foot from getting sore.

1273. If you stick a nail into your foot, grease the nail and carry it in your pocket. The wound will heal quickly.

1274. If you pull a nail out of a horse's foot and put it into your pocket, the horse's foot will not get sore.

1275. Neuralgia can be cured if the sufferer will for three consecutive days take nine swallows of water after rising in the morning and before speaking.........................................Mountains

1276. Use a red silk handkerchief for neuralgia....................................Central Kentucky

1277. If you are suffering from neuralgia in the left side of the head, take a piece of red wrapping string, ignite it, and sniff the smoke into the right nostril, and vice versa......................Blue Grass

1278. Tie a certain bone from a hog's head around the neck, to keep off neuralgia.........................................Central Kentucky Negroes

1279. Neuralgia is cured by the wearing of a nutmeg around the neck..............Central Kentucky

1280. If you go to sleep on the flat of the back, you will not have a nightmare................Mountains

1281. A cure for nightmare is found by turning the shoes upside down with the toes toward the head of the bed.

1282. A pan of water under the bed prevents night sweats.

1283. In slicing onions, place a pin between the teeth, to prevent crying.

1284. For a fallen palate, the hair on top of a patient's head is pulled "till it pops"; the patient at the same time must swallow twice......Western Kentucky

1285. To cure phthisic, you must measure yourself with a broom-stick and then put the broom-stick upstairs where you will never see it again......Mountains

1286. To cure phthisic, stand the one affected against a tree, fasten a lock of his hair in the tree, and then cut that lock off. When the place grows over, the sick one will be cured.

1287. Cockle-burr tea is good for phthisic..........................................Central Kentucky

1288. Carry a horse chestnut in the pocket, to avert piles.

1289. Carry alum, to keep off piles..........Mountains

1290. To cure pheumonia, place a part of a freshly killed chicken on the chest..........Western Kentucky

1291. A dime under your tongue will enable you to eat without danger of poison......Central Kentucky

1292. A nutmeg tied around the neck with a silk cord prevents quinsy.

1293. Carry an acorn in the pocket, to prevent rheumatism.

1294. A piece of alum carried by a person who is suffering from rheumatism will cure the disease.

1295. Wear amber beads about the neck for rheumatism.

1296. To cure rheumatism, fill a can with angleworms, let it stand in the sun all day, and rub the oil on the stiff joints.

1297. A brass ring worn on the left thumb prevents rheumatism.

1298. If you wear a brass ring on the middle finger of the left hand, you will prevent rheumatism.................................North-eastern Kentucky

1299. To avert rheumatism, carry a horse-chestnut in the pocket.

1300. Put a bumble-bee sting between the fingers, to keep off rheumatism.

1301. Use carbon from an arc-light that has not touched the ground, to prevent rheumatism.

1302. For rheumatism, wear a copper wire around the affected parts...............Northern Kentucky

1303. Rheumatism may be prevented by the sufferer's sleeping with a dog.................Mountains

1304. For rheumatism, wear an eel skin around the neck.

1305. You can cure your rheumatism by carrying elder leaves in your pocket................Mountains

1306. Wear red flannel on the wrist, to cure rheumatism..................................Blue Grass

1307. Carry a round ham bone, to avert rheumatism.

1308. Bend a horse-shoe nail into the form of a ring, to avert rheumatism.

1309. If you break the ice in winter time and jump into the water, the bath will cure rheumatism.

1310. Wear a lead ring, to keep off rheumatism.

1311. For rheumatism, wear a nutmeg around the neck.

1312. Pokeberries are thought to be a cure for rheumatism. The berry mixed with whiskey is drunk as a tea. The dried berry gathered in the fall is also made into tea. The raw berry is also eaten........................................Mountains

1313. Rheumatism is treated with skunk grease or red-worm oil....................Western Kentucky

1314. An Irish potato in the pocket may avert or cure rheumatism. If the potato hardens, it will cure the ailment. If, however, it rots, it will do no good.