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Thread #116591 Message #2511314
Posted By: Rapparee
09-Dec-08 - 09:31 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Infection From Hell
Subject: RE: BS: The Infection From Hell
Okay, that does it. Here are some cures from my home town, warranted genuine and copied from "Folk-Lore of Adams County, Illinois" (NY: Alma Eigens Hyatt Foundation, 1935), p. 241ff:
4983. Heat cow manure in sweet milk, then place this in a bag and tie it against the ear for earache.
4986. Cure earache by keeping the ear filled with goose grease.
4995. Fry a piece of rabbit fat and put one drop of the grease in the ear for earache.
4999. As an earache remedy, use skunk oil.
5006. A little urine rubbed in the ear will cure earache.
5010. Stop a girl's earache by inserting into her ear a few drops of urine from a boy.
Now, if these don't do it let me know. There are more cures to try.