Condition |
Method Of Treatment |
pneumonia |
applied - poultice of warm insides of a chicken |
pneumonia |
applied - between shoulders and chest, heated cloth containing chopped onions and camphorated oil |
pneumonia |
applied - skunk oil |
pneumonia |
ingested - mullein tea |
pneumonia |
applied - gasoline, camphor gum. |
pneumonia |
applied - lard and snuff ointment |
pneumonia |
applied - mustard |
pneumonia |
applied - onion, lard, skunk grease. |
pneumonia |
applied - live chicken |
pneumonia |
warm intestines of a rattlesnake |
pneumonia |
applied - heated cabbage leaves |
pneumonia |
ingested - pills performed - put hands on stomach |
typhoid |
|
croup |
applied - baked onion to the chest |
pneumonia |
applied - Fried hog manure. |
pneumonia |
applied - onion |
pneumonia |
applied - hot cow dung |
pneumonia |
applied - open turpentine bottle to tongue three times |
pneumonia |
worn - leather thong |
pneumonia |
applied - raw pork chops |
colds, fevers |
ingested - warm mixture of whiskey, lemon juice, honey |
colds |
applied - fried onions |
pneumonia |
ingested - hawk feet |
convalescence |
|
pneumonia |
applied - corn meal poultice |
pneumonia |
applied - poultice of olive tar, turpentine, mutton suet, and kerosene, wrapped in red flannel and sprinkled with salt |
pneumonia |
applied - poultice of onions fried in fat; mustard poultice |
pneumonia |
applied - onion poultices |
pneumonia |
applied - coal oil, salt, hard lard, flannel. |
pneumonia |
applied - Heated goose grease. |
pneumonia |
applied - Denver mud |
pneumonia |
applied - mustard leaves |
pneumonia |
applied - hens’ droppings, lard |
pneumonia |
applied - dead dove |
pneumonia |
applied - cutting up a living pigeon and applying 1 half to the front of the chest and the other half to the back. |
pneumonia |
ingested - sassafras roots and leaves. |
pneumonia |
applied - large wilted cabbage leaves with cloth; hot vinegar |
pneumonia |
|
pneumonia |
ingested - Decoctions of triticum repens |
smallpox, pneumonia, bronchitis, tumors |
|
cold, chest |
applied - Boiled onions placed between two thin cloths. |
pneumonia |
ingested - Hog's hoof tea |
pneumonia |
applied - onion |
pneumonia |
applied - fresh cow manure |
pneumonia |
applied - wet tobacco leaves |
pneumonia |
worn - leather thong |
pneumonia |
applied - goose grease |
pneumonia |
applied - dead dove |
pneumonia |
|
colds, pneumonia, thirst |
performed - carry rock salt in pocket |
pneumonia |
applied - poultice of ground flaxseed, water, mustard |
pneumonia |
applied - pine tar |
pneumonia |
applied - hot fried onion on chest |
bronchitis |
worn - pneumonia jackets, mustard |
pneumonia |
applied - raw onions, rye flour |
pneumonia |
ingested - tar, water |
fever |
worn - We sheets wrapped around sufferer. |
pneumonia |
applied - Poultice of golondrina or milk-weed. |
pneumonia |
applied - onion, cornmeal. |
pneumonia |
applied - neck and head of chicken, flannel cloth |
pneumonia |
ingested - deer blood, wine |
pneumonia |
applied - hot wet blankets |
pneumonia |
applied - térébenthine |
pneumonia |
worn - warm jacket. |
pneumonia |
applied - onion |
pneumonia |
ingested - dog stool (hard & white) |
pneumonia |
applied - poultice of Vicks and nutmeg |
pneumonia |
performed - prayer worn - costume of St. Rita |
pneumonia |
applied - goose grease |
pneumonia |
performed - put fly blisters onthe chest and clip the blisters. |
pneumonia |
applied - fried sliced onions, rye flour, poultice |
pneumonia |
ingested - juice of roasted onion |
pneumonia |
worn - jacket of pine tar and grease |
pneumonia |
applied - poultice of smashed raw garlic and flour; onion poultice |
pneumonia |
applied - round steak, onions. |
pneumonia |
applied - tar |
pneumonia |
ingested - Mullein flower tea. |
pneumonia |
|
pneumonia |
applied - a plaster made of Denver mud |
pneumonia |
ingested - tea is made from sassafras and spice wood root. For phlegm which accompanies it, a brew is mad from a seven bark plant and vine that grows of the bank of the creek. |
pneumonia |
performed - hang blankets across windows and doors of sickroom |
pneumonia |
performed - carry patient “over fresh water fasting” |
pneumonia |
Thistleroot (Argemone mexicana L.) |
tumors |
|
pneumonia |
ingested - Sugar and kerosene. |
pneumonia |
applied - fried onions. |
pneumonia, arthritis |
applied - flour, salt, vinegar |
pneumonia |
ingested - whiskey |
foot, feet, ailments, cold, croup, sinuses, pneumonia |
applied - hot water, mustard; lemonade (whisky); lard, camphor; vinegar; special cream |
pneumonia |
applied - mustard, flour, water |
pneumonia |
ingested - tea of cow feces |
colds |
applied - live chicken cut open |
pneumonia |
applied - coat of black cat |
venereal disease |
performed - get phneumonia |
pneumonia |
performed - make right foot print in the year’s first snow |
pneumonia |
applied - mustard, water, barley meal |
pneumonia |
applied - live chicken |
pneumonia |
applied - boiled potatoes, mustard, salt, lobelia in muslin bags - to chest and back |
pneumonia |
applied - poultice of tar and grease on a flannel cloth |
influenza |
ingested - tea made from yellow mullein flowers |
pneumonia |
performed - set fire in cup, invert cup on patient’s side, raise blister (cupping) |
pneumonia |
applied - spearmint poultice |
pneumonia |
applied - vinegar and onions |
pneumonia |
performed - By faith healer |
cold |
applied - goose grease |
colds |
ingested - sage, pennyroyal |
hives |
ingested - coal oil |
pneumonia |
ingested - Goldfish blood. |
pneumonia |
|
pneumonia |
applied - onions, lard. |
pneumonia |
applied - chicken dung, lard |
pneumonia |
|
pneumonia |
applied - eaves of herb patlixoxoqui (very fresh) are put under a patient’s armpits |
pneumonia |
ingested - whiskey performed - blood-letting |
pneumonia |
ingested - plain cold water while lying in bed applied - ice-cold water on chest; warm water on feet |
pneumonia |
|
tuberculosis, pneumonia, rheumatic fever, blood poisoning |
applied - B & M External Remedy |
tuberculosis, pneumonia, rheumatic fever, blood poisoning |
B. & M. Remedy |
pneumonia |
performed - Cupping. |
pneumonia |
|
pneumonia |
ingested - whiskey |
pneumonia |
applied - mustard, flour, water, vinegar, cheesecloth |
pneumonia |
ingested - tea of cow feces |
colds |
worn - underwear dipped in cold water |
pneumonia |
ingested - white dog excrement |
pneumonia |
ingested - dogwood bark tea, whiskey |
pneumonia |
applied - hot poultice of turpentine, Vicks salve, and lard, with a flannel cloth |
pneumonia |
ingested - distillation of lily of the valley blossoms, leaves, stems and roots |
pneumonia |
performed - grease patient’s feet |
pneumonia |
applied - mustard poultice; bran or linseed |
health, tonics |
ingested - sulphur and molasses on March 1 at 7:00 a.m. |
lung ailments |
applied - hot corn. |
pneumonia |
applied - raw onions |
pneumonia |
|
fever |
|
pneumonia |
ingested - boneset tea |
pneumonia |
ingested - Wine cooked with three cloves of garlic. |
pneumonia |
applied - onions, lard. |
pneumonia |
ingested - water, soot, egg yolk |
pneumonia |
applied - pancakes, baked with as many kinds of tea leaves as she could find, on the chest of her child. |
pneumonia |
|
pneumonia |
performed - veduze (cupping); blood-letting applied - oil or lotion |
pneumonia |
applied - tar plaster (with lard, for children) |
pneumonia |
ingested - water with sediment from water-carrying vessels |
pneumonia |
ingested - Decoction of sambucus niger |
pneumonia |
applied - cut-open toad |
colds |
performed - Eliminating milk from diet. |
pneumonia |
ingested - Kerosene. |
pneumonia |
applied - onion, meat grease. |
pneumonia |
|
pneumonia |
applied - mustard, flour, egg whites, kerosene, fat |
prophetic dreams |
|
pneumonia |
ingested - cow chip tea |
pneumonia |
applied - mustard, lard, pepper, onion |
influenza |
ingested - orange juice |
pneumonia |
applied - boiled vinegar, red pepper, salt on wet towel to chest and throat |
pneumonia |
applied - flannel cloth soaked in turpentine |
pneumonia |
applied - mixture of lard, turpentine, camphor, pure lamp oil on chest ingested - hot liquids, tea, whiskey |
pneumonia |
applied - onion poultices |
pneumonia |
|
pneumonia |
ingested - tea made with a pig;s toe nails |
influenza |
ingested - Whiskey |
pneumonia |
ingested - Garlic, beaten. |
pneumonia |
ingested - Mamon tea. |
pneumonia |
applied - nettles |
pneumonia |
applied - onion, rye flour |
pneumonia |
applied - chicken entrails |
pneumonia, fever |
ingested - juice of boiled earthworms |
pneumonia |
performed - blood-letting |
pneumonia |
applied - tobacco and lard poultices |
pneumonia |
performed - throw stone against walnut tree |
pneumonia |
applied - plaster of melted tallow and turpentine |
illness, supernatural cause, treatment |
|
pneumonia |
ingested - Hot lemonade with whiskey. |
pneumonia |
applied - onion, rye. |
pneumonia |
|
cough, whooping cough, pneumonia |
ingested - syrup of sugar, water, onion and oregano applied - red onion poultice |
illness, sickness, disease, cause, portent |
|
pneumonia |
applied - salt |
pneumonia |
applied - hot vinegar |
sickness, disease |
|
pneumonia |
ingested - hog’s hoof tea |
pneumonia |
applied - wilted cabbage leaves, hot vinegar |
pneumonia |
performed - bathe patient in raw whiskey, apply burnt whiskey |
pneumonia |
applied - Vick’s salve |
pneumonia |
applied - fried onions |
back pain, colds, pneumonia |
applied - flaming substance in jar, to back, repeated several times. |
colds |
applied - Colds: hot salt in wool stocking applied in case of pains in the side or pneumonia. |
pneumonia |
applied - Plaster of garlic and lettuce seed |
pneumonia, colds |
coal oil |
pneumonia |
ingested - egg laid by black hen on April 16th |
pneumonia |
ingested - Hilton’s Specific No. 3 |
pneumonia |
|
pneumonia |
performed - blood-letting |
pneumonia |
Turpentine |
pneumonia |
performed - Cover patient with blanket, then fresh manure. |
pneumonia |
applied - onions, iron |
pneumonia |
ingested - sassafras tea |
pneumonia |
applied - lungs of sheep or milt of bullock to soles of feet performed - bury afterwards |
cold |
|
pneumonia |
worn - red flannel, Vicks |
pneumonia |
worn - cold, wet underwear |
pneumonia |
applied - white oak block, ingested - butterfly root |
cough, pneumonia, pain in side or back |
applied - mustard plaster |
pneumonia |
performed - soak feet in hot vinegar water overnight applied - raw potato poultice on chest |
gout, sprains, colic, inflammation, pneumonia, typhoid |
ingested - distillations and concoctions of the blossoms, leaves, stems, and roots of lily of the valley, in May |
pneumonia |
applied - mustard plasters |
colds |
applied - fried onions between two pieces of wool |
pneumonia |
worn - red onion |
cold, pneumonia, croup |
applied - mustard plasters (mustard, flour, water, cloth) |
consumption |
worn (?)--charms |
pneumonia |
applied - Hot hoe cake. |
pneumonia |
ingested - Decoction of malva silvestris. |
pneumonia |
ingested - coal oil |
pneumonia |
|
pneumonia |
B.& M. Remedy |
pneumonia |
ingested - tea for colds applied - axaxapo leaves under armpits |
pneumonia |
applied - Vick’s Salve, tallow, turpentine |
pneumonia |
|
pneumonia |
applied - skunk fat on chest |
pneumonia |
applied - special cream, cotton |
colds |
applied - poultice of dry mustard, flour, egg whites, kerosene, beef fat |
pneumonia |
applied - onions |
pneumonia |
applied - onion poltice |
throat, sore, colds, pneumonia |
applied - salt pork, lard, onions, flannel |
pneumonia |
performed - physic, enema, induce sweat |
pneumonia |
worn - underwear dipped in cold water |
pneumonia, neuralgia |
pennyroyal |
pneumonia |
applied - blankets, hot water, plant roots. |
colds, coughs, sore throat |
performed - fry onions in lard, rub lard on chest; place onions in sack, place sack on patient’s chest |
pneumonia |
applied - slacked lime placed in factory-cloth, around torso |
chills, fever, typhoid, pneumonia, cold, head cold |
applied - performed - place in or near the bed |
pneumonia |
applied - Side of meat. |
pneumonia |
|
pneumonia |
|
pneumonia |
ingested - burned pigs feet, water |
pneumonia |
|
pneumonia |
performed - blood-letting |
pneumonia |
applied - turpentine; grease; hot packs |
pneumonia |
|
pneumonia |
ingested - saturated solution of salt (sodium chloride) or dry salt |
colds, pneumonia |
applied - camphor, lard, ammonia, turpentine, flannel |
pneumonia |
ingested - asaphidity [asafoetida] |
pneumonia |
applied - coal oil, lard |
pneumonia |
applied - fried onions |
pneumonia |
applied - onion, rye meal, vinegar |
pneumonia |
applied - hot poultice of fried onions on chest |
pneumonia |
ingested - hot butterfly root tea |
pneumonia |
applied - fat bacon. |
pneumonia |
ingested - applied - pine tosils |
cold, pneumonia |
applied - poultice of grease and onions |
colds, pneumonia |
ingested - polecat grease |
pneumonia |
applied - black hen split in half |
pneumonia |
ingested - cockroach broth. |
pneumonia |
|
pneumonia |
performed - healing ritual |
pneumonia |
performed - blood-letting |
pneumonia |
|
pneumonia |
applied - warm lung of sheep to soles of feet |
pneumonia |
applied - onion, cornmeal. |
pneumonia |
worn - asafetida in small bag around neck |
pneumonia |
inhaled - vinegar |
pneumonia |
applied - onions |
pneumonia |
ingested - corn shuck tea |
colds, pneumonia |
applied - hot burdock, vinegar |
diarrhea, constipation |
ingested - Anis Root or Yerbanis |
pneumonia |
applied - mustard plasters |
pneumonia |
applied - hot poultice of hopvine roots and buds |
pneumonia |
applied - freshly killed chicken. |
pneumonia |
applied - salty meat. |
cold, pneumonia |
applied - poultice of grease and onions |
pneumonia |
ingested - Hog’s hoof tea. |
pneumonia |
applied - onion |
pneumonia |
|
pneumonia |
ingested - decoction of farfara |
pneumonia |
ingested - Tea made from a pig’s toenails |
pneumonia |
ingested - anise |
pneumonia |
ingested - boneset |
pneumonia |
applied - skunk oil; ingested - honey, whiskey, tea, castor oil |
patent medicines |
Ballard’s Wonderful Golden Oil |
pneumonia |
|
pneumonia |
worn - bag of garlic |
pneumonia |
applied - mustard |
pneumonia |
ingested - lard |
epidemic |
|
pneumonia |
applied - skin of black cat |
pneumonia |
applied - grease on feet |
pneumonia |
ingested - boneset tea |
pneumonia |
|
pneumonia |
applied - cow manure, bread dough. |
pneumonia |
applied - corn meal |
colds |
performed - Cupping |
pneumonia |
applied - Poultice of hopvine and leaves. |
pneumonia |
ingested - onion syrup |
pneumonia |
ingested - water in which one has soaked three fingers |
pneumonia |
ingested - pine-tree sweetened with honey |
pneumonia |
ingested - Anise |
pneumonia |
ingested - hot butterfly-root tea |
pneumonia |
applied - warm lung of sheep to feet of soles |
death lore |
|
pneumonia |
performed - open windows and allow freezing cold air “to freeze the evil and germs” |
pneumonia |
worn - bag of garlic |
pneumonia |
applied - skin of black cat |
measles, pneumonia |
|
pneumonia |
ingested- black hog hoof tea |
pneumonia |
applied - skunk oil ingested - honey and whiskey, tea and castor oil |
pneumonia, nerves |
applied - hops (Humulus lupulus L.), heated and put in cloth bag for pneumonia; as nerve medicine |
pneumonia |
applied - on chest, cloth having melted tallow mixed with turpentine |
pneumonia |
ingested - cow manure tea. |
pneumonia |
ingested - dog fat |
pneumonia |
applied - hot mush poultice |
colds |
ingested - boneset tonic |
pneumonia |
|
pneumonia |
applied - onions |
pneumonia |
applied - cornmeal, flaxseed poultices |
pneumonia |
ingested - heated flaxen oil |
pneumonia |
White potato beaten |
pneumonia |
ingested - dried corn shuck tea |
pneumonia |
applied - mixture of quinine, turpentine, grease |
pneumonia |
ingested - warm wine with decoctions of flowers |
pneumonia |
applied - lungs of sheep or milt of bullock to soles of feet; performed - bury afterwards |
tuberculosis, penumonia, rheumatic fever, blood poisoning |
B. & M. |
pregnancy |
|
colds |
performed - Under covers place steaming burned pine knots, wrapped. |
pneumonia |
applied - axle grease from wagon; unused linen |
pneumonia |
worn - garlic |
pneumonia |
applied - skunk oil ingested - honey, whiskey, tea, castor oil. |
cold |
ingested - mullen |
measles, pneumonia |
ingested - slippery elm bark tea |
pneumonia |
applied - hot cow dung on chest |
pneumonia |
applied - poultice of chicken manure mixed with lard |
pneumonia |
applied - sweat. |
pneumonia |
ingested - cow manure |
pneumonia |
applied - plaster, flour, mustard, water. |
pneumonia |
ingested - Tea of wild iris, blue flag. |
pneumonia |
ingested - water off fermented corn |
pneumonia |
worn - red flannel |
pneumonia |
performed - back adjustment technique |
pneumonia |
|
pneumonia |
applied - mixture of turpentine, lard, coal oil |
pneumonia |
applied - lungs of sheep or milt of bullock to soles of feet |
colds, fevers, typhoid pneumonia |
ingested - boneset |
pneumonia |
applied - half butterfly and hot blood |
backache |
applied - turpentine |
pneumonia |
ingested - alum, water |
pneumonia |
applied - mustard greens |
pneumonia |
applied - cow dung |
pneumonia |
|
pneumonia |
|
pneumonia |
applied - freshly killed chicken on chest |
pneumonia |
ingested - hot cornmeal gruel |
pneumonia |
grease from hog’s bag bladder. |
pneumonia |
applied - cow manure |
pneumonia |
inhaled - ground black pepper. |
pneumonia |
ingested - Tea of wild iris. |
pneumonia |
ingested - mint tea, lemon. |
pneumonia |
applied - onion |
pneumonia |
applied - Spanish flies powdered in a pestle and mortar and mixed with lard |
pneumonia |
|
pneumonia |
applied - sheep lungs around patient’s feet |
sneeze, sneezing |
performed - holding handkerchief over nose |
pneumonia |
performed - wrap wet “pneumonia sheets” around patient |
pneumonia |
|
pneumonia |
worn - onions |
pneumonia |
applied - chicken |
pneumonia |
applied - bark |
pneumonia |
applied - dead dove |
pneumonia |
applied - “onion jacket”: cooked onions, with lard and snuff; Octagon soap |
pneumonia |
ingested - hog hoof tea. |
pneumonia |
|
pneumonia |
ingested - hot mint tea. |
pneumonia |
applied - onion |
pneumonia |
performed - elimination in stool and urine |
pneumonia |
applied - poultice of hot wheat-bran |
yellow fever |
performed - inhaled - build great fires to dispel miasma |
illness, healing methods |
|
pneumonia |
B. & M. External Remedies |
cold |
applied - mustard, eggs, olive oil, flour, cloth |
illness |
applied - Goose grease poultice. |
pneumonia |
|
pneumonia |
applied - onion |
cold, flu |
inhaled - hay |
colds |
applied - mustard plasters |
pneumonia |
applied - dead dove |
pneumonia |
performed - hang over sick bed slaked lime in mosquito netting. |
pneumonia |
ingested - burned, black pig knuckles |
pneumonia |
applied - “cupping” |
colds, coughs, sore throat |
applied - pine tar on chest and back worn - woolen jacket |
bronchitis, typhoid, pneumonia, tumors |
|
pneumonia |
applied - kerosene and lard |
pneumonia |
applied - mustard plant. |
pneumonia |
applied - onion poultice |
pneumonia |
applied - cow dung, lard |
pneumonia |
|
pneumonia |
ingested - buttermilk |
pneumonia |
ingested - decoction of creeping cynodon; blackberry; infusion of lungwort |
pneumonia |
applied - plasters |
pneumonia |
applied - skunk grease on chest |
cholera, lockjaw, measles, pneumonia |
|
cuts |
applied - turpentine and bacon fat |
pneumonia |
performed - close windows applied - blankets; hot bricks; hot water bottles |
cold, pneumonia, bronchitis |
applied - goose grease and turpentine on the chest |
pneumonia |
applied - olive oil; plucked pigeon |
pneumonia |
applied - handkerchief |
pneumonia |
applied - onions, fat, muslin |
pinworms, pneumonia |
Sulphur and molasses |
pneumonia |
ingested - slippery elm bark tea |
pneumonia |
ingested - butterfly weed tea |
pneumonia |
applied - onion and garlic poultice |
pneumonia |
worn - flannel shirt, lard, nutmeg. |
pneumonia |
applied - skunk oil. |
pneumonia |
performed - bury dishtowel by light of moon, spit over left shoulder. |
colds, pneumonia |
ingested - Life everlasting: Lobelia or Gnaphaliurn obtusifolium L. |
pneumonia |
applied - on chest, part of freshly killed chicken |
tuberculosis, pneumonia, rheumatic fever, blood poisoning |
ingested - a patent medicine called “B. & M. Remedy” |
cold, sore throat, flu, pneumonia |
ingested - mullein leaf |
pneumonia, colds |
applied - kerosene and lard, bags of hot salt |
pneumonia |
applied - onion, meat grease. |
pneumonia |
ingested - tea made of sabila (very cold) |
pneumonia |
applied - B. & M. External Remedy |
pneumonia |
Southern California climate |
pneumonia |
ingested - Decoction of valieriana officinalis (roots) |
pneumonia |
ingested - Skunk oil |
illness, healing methods |
ingested - Boneset. |
pneumonia |
applied - Goose grease. |
pneumonia |
applied - mustard, egg, olive oil, flour. |
pneumonia |
inges |