1059. When a finger, a toe, or an arm is amputated, it should be buried in a straight position; otherwise the patient will suffer pains from cramp. Secrecy should be observed in the burial of the amputated member.

1060. If after the amputation of any member of the body the absent member itches, scratch the other arm or foot, to make the itching cease.

1061. Asthma in a child may be cured if a lock of its hair is placed in a hole in a post or tree above its head.

When the child grows to that height the disease will be cured.

1062. You may cure asthma by wearing a string of amber beads about the neck.

1063. For back-ache use pine-resin plasters.

1064. In setting tobacco, you often have a pain in your back. Have someone kneel on your back. The pain will cease.

1065. To cure your back-ache, let a seventh child walk seven times up and down your back.........................................Central Kentucky

1066. Rub a plantain leaf on a honey-bee sting.....................................Central Kentucky

1067. You may remove birth-marks by rubbing them with the hand of a corpse.

1068. To prevent blindness, wear ear-rings.

1069. A dusty spider web is good for a cut.

1070. Some people can stop the flow of blood in other people or in animals. The power runs in families, and a man must teach it to a woman, and a woman to a man.

1071. Hemorrhages can be stopped by the use of pills made of cobwebs.

1072. To stop the flow of blood from a cut, use soot from the chimney.................Southern Kentucky

1073. Hemorrhages can be stopped by the swallowing of tea brewed from the soot of a wood fire.

1074. If you stick the knife or other instrument with which you have cut yourself into the ground, the blood will cease to flow..............Mountains

1075. If a knife which has caused a cut or wound is destroyed, the wound will be healed......Mountains

1076. When you cut your hand on a piece of tin, bury the tin in the ground, to cure the wound..................................North-eastern Kentucky

1077. A cut may be cured by the victim's drawing a charcoal ring around the cut.............Mountains

1078. To stop hemorrhages, have a second person repeat with the patient: "And when I passed by thee and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee, 'Live'." [Ezekiel 16: 6.]

1079. Hemorrhages are checked by laying an axe under the bed of the patient.............. .Mountains

1080. To stop the nose from bleeding, drop a key down the back of the sufferer.

1081. To stop bleeding of the nose, pour water on the back of the head.............Western Kentucky

1082. Keep your nose from bleeding by wearing lead which has not been on the ground.....Mountains

1083. You can stop your nose from bleeding by wearing lead around your neck, and putting it on your shoulder when the nose begins to bleed.

1084. To stop nose-bleeding wear around the neck a bullet that has killed something..........Mountains

1085. Hold a piece of silver under the upper lip, to cure nose-bleeding ......................Mountains

1086. You can stop your nose from bleeding by tying a red yarn string around your thumb.........................................Central Kentucky

1087. You can keep the nose from bleeding by wearing a string of red corn around the neck.....Mountains

1088. Wear a string of corn around your neck to cure nose-bleeding...............Western Kentucky

1089. To prevent bleeding of the nose, a yarn string is worn around the left little finger..........................................Western Kentucky

1090. As a cure for nose-bleeding, wear a certain gristle taken from a hog's ear.

1091. To stop the nose from bleeding, put a piece of silk paper under the upper lip.

1092. To prevent your nose from bleeding, place a piece of stiff card board between your front teeth.

1093. If your nose bleeds, let it bleed a little bit on the point of a knife; then stick the knife into the ground before the blood gets cold. This process will stop nose-bleeding.......................Blue Grass

1094. Nose-bleeding is stopped by allowing the blood to fall on a sharp axe..................Mountains

1095. You can stop your nose from bleeding by putting a knife dipped in the blood under a doorstep.........................................Mountains

1096. For nose-bleeding, hold a Bible over the sufferer's head and read Ezekiel 16: 6, three times..........................................Mountains

1097. Eat nutmeg for boils.........Western Kentucky

1098. For blood-poisoning, place a piece of bacon on the eruption...........................Mountains

1099. Put a piece of copper on an eruption from blood-poisoning ..........................Mountains

1100. To cure a boil, turn up a kettle, get some soot, and make a cross on the boil..............Mountains

1101. You can cure your boils by swallowing shot.

1102. Boils are treated with a poultice of a mud-dauber's nest........................Western Kentucky

1103. To cure a boil, boil a bar of lead (about one third of a pound) in one pint of milk. Boil it down until about two teaspoonfuls are left. Drink it, and you will never have any more boils........Mountains

1104. Clover boiled in a kettle with a crystalline rock makes a salve for boils and other skin eruptions. ..................................Mountains

1105. To cure a bone-felon, have a person who, before he was seven years old, had held a mole until it died, hold the finger for half an hour............................................Western Kentucky

1106. It causes bad luck to burn a rag that has been around a bone-felon.................Mountains

1107. To cure bots in horses, rub the animal nine times from the tip of its nose to the end of its tail, repeating some lingo; then slap its side............

...........................Western Kentucky