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                                 Pneumonia

 

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

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