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Fever

Condition	Method Of Treatment
weakness, cold, fever, prickly heat	ingested - Ram-goat-dash (or rush)-along. Turnera ulmifolia L.
fever	worn - jimson weeds on head
fever	performed - wrap in many blankets and sweat
chills	Boiled persimmon tree bark
fever	applied - cold water packs
fever	worn - sycamore leaves
typhoid fever	ingested - boneset tea
fever	snakeroot
fever	performed - bathe in vinegar and water
sickbed	performed - change wedding ring to other hand.
fever	performed - wipe tongue with soiled diaper.
colds	performed - feed or starve
fever	Rattlesnake bones.
fever	applied - mullet leaves.
fever	applied - yeast
typhoid fever	applied - hot vinegar
fever, contagious diseases	performed - stick hair (Negro wool) tied in red flannel stuck in crack of door
fever	ingested - rye blossoms
hay fever	ingested - rhubarb, quinine
canker sores	ingested - green frogs, butter, alum, rattlesnake’s gall
colds, feed a cold	performed - feed a cold and starve a fever
cold, fever	performed - prayer during Lent
cold, fever	performed - exorcism
cold, fever	performed - transference ritual
consumption	performed - baptism
deafness
fever, diarrhea	applied - ingested - slippery elm bark
epilepsy	ingested - Dried and powdered human excrement, one scruple to a drachm
fever	ingested - Elder
female ailments
fever
fever	Thunder arrows and axes
fever	applied - fatback on wrists
chills, fever, palsy	ingested - applied - warm, raw heart and liver; backbone necklace
fever	ingested - catnip tea
fever	ingested - tea from roots
fever	ingested - tea made from roots of Dog Fennel
fever	applied - colocynthis, rose-oil, and vinegar
fever	applied - agate on head of patient
fever	performed - bleeding
fever	ingested - boiled milk with chestnuts
fever	ingested - boneset (Eupatoria) tea
fever	ingested - bretzeln or geese eggs
fever	Blessed mistletoe
fever	performed - mix nail parings with tobacco into cigarette; drop at cross-roads without looking up
fever	Odor of onion
fever	performed - sweat baths
fever	performed - elaborate ritual
fever	ingested - water from same bucket as horse
fever	ingested - Liver of a seven-year old mouse.
fevers	Bugloss leaves
fevers	performed - break pine top with face turned towards the setting sun
fever	ingested - dandelion, agrimony, ver-juice, rue, crab’s eyes and claws, yarrow
fever	ingested - vinegar, onion
fever	ingested - pumpkin
fevers	ingested - peas, bacon
fever
fever	ingested - golden seal.
fever	ingested - hard boiled eggs on Good Friday
fever	applied - green Jimson weed leaves
fever	ingested - mixture of Rosemary and 24 other herbs including pepper and gum mastic
fever	ingested - snakeroot tea
fever	performed - ritual with frog, urine, earthen pot
fever	performed - place patient on shore when tide is coming in
fever	applied - decoction of willow bark
fever	applied - urine
fever	Watermelon
fever blisters	applied - moistened match.
fever	spiders
fever
fever	worn - Seahorse on the left arm.
fever	ingested - Earth from around tomb of Saint Thomas with water.
fever	Dogwood
fever	ingested - holy water in which ring belonging to Remigius had been dipped
fever	black stork’s feather, black chicken feather
fever	applied - poultice of castor bean leaves
fevers	performed - put fingernail parings in hole in a young aspen or birch tree
hay fever	Corn oil
malaria	cherry bark
malaria	performed - induce vomiting
milk sickness	performed - elaborate ceremony
quartan ague, chills, fever	ingested - Garlic with wine and silphium.
quartan fever	applied - scorpion tail and gristle in black cloth
scarlet fever
scarlet fever	performed - lay piece of red flannel stuck with five pins put under child’s bed
scarlet fever	worn - nine red woolen bands
smallpox, scarlet fever	ingested - mixture of zinc sulphate, foxglove (digitalis), sugar, water
smallpox
stomach	ingested - fennel
tertian fever, agues, maleria	Stone crop
tertian fever, agues, maleria	vervain
tonsillitis	applied - peachtree and jimson leaves.
typhoid	ingested - dried and finely powdered lobelia tops with finely powdered red beech bark and rattlesnake’s gall; bitter drink of unicorn root, white wood root, brandy or wine
typhoid	catnip, peppermint.
fever, typhoid	applied - water, vinegar, herbs
yellow fever
yellow fever	performed - inhaled - burning foul smelling substances
illness, sickness, disease, cause, portent	ingested - tablespoonful of saltpeter and four ounces of castor oil
warts, fever	performed - cat burial in graveyard applied - raw potato worn - spider around neck in nutshell
folk illness, susto
mental ailments
illness, healing methods, sudorific	ingested - feverfew.
birth, childbed ailments, puerperal	performed - priests pray to frighten witch away
teething	worn - mole brains in black silk bag around neck
fever
quartan fever
quartan fever	performed - bury “zwischenträger” in dark place
cold, fever	ingested - Marshmallow herbs and sugar water, cooked and strained.
fever
fever	performed - place black feathers in pan and burn under bed
fever	ingested - tea from boiled goat pills, tied up in clean rag
fever	Gemison (Jimson) weed
fever	ingested - Sassafras tea.
scarlet fever	ingested - take given peach tree leaves and boil them and drink.
illness	ingested - Tea of certain rose leaves.
chills, fever	performed - patient shaken ingested - 2 aspirin
illness, healer traditions	performed - bore hole in south side of tree; blow breath into hole; plug hole
evil eye	performed - throw an egg, which sat out under the child’s bed for a night, into the middle of the crossroads
fever	performed - prayer over grain
fever
fever	ingested - tea made with borraja herb
hay fever	inhaled - salt water
fever	applied - potato, vinegar
soul
heart
pneumonia	applied - raw pork chops
colds, fevers	ingested - warm mixture of whiskey, lemon juice, honey
spring fever	ingested - sulphur and molasses
colds	performed - feed patient
fever	applied - cold water packs
chills, fever	performed - tie string around hickory tree and say charm
fever	ingested - mary apple
conjury, foot, blisters
conjury, insomnia, death
fever	ingested - elder tea
illness
fever	performed - very hot and very cold bath, alternatly
fever, pain, stomach aches	ingested - applied - Black-giant (joint). Piper nigrinodum CDC
cold, constipation, lame back	inhaled - Wild-barsley. Ocimum. micranthum
fever, risings	applied - wilted jimson leaves
fever	applied - hot water bags
chills	performed - tie knot in string; tie string to large pine tree
fever blisters, sores
ague, chills, fever	worn - over pit of stomach, crushed frankincense and grated nutmeg in a thin muslin bag
biliousness, gas	ingested - tea made from the roots of fever grass
chills	ingested - sweetened mullein leaf tea
colds	ingested - fever-grass tea
fever	performed - put feet in hot water and a cold cloth on head
typhoid fever	ingested - clabber
colds	ingested - fever grass root tea, sweetened with sugar
fever	ingested - tea made from balm or black snakeroot
fever	applied - agate on head
fever	performed - spit over little finger
fever	performed - put water under head of patient’s bed.
hay fever	performed - cross a body of water.
hives	ingested - catnip tea
fever	performed - slice onion and put slices under patient’s pillow
fever	applied - poultice of scraped raw potato on head
colds	performed - starve
fever	performed - spit when you see a caterpillar.
fever	applied - hot water
fever
typhoid fever	ingested - calomel
typhoid fever	performed - tie fish to sole of each foot with tails of fish between toes of patient
hay fever	performed - chew honeycomb
chills	ingested - turpentine and cold coffee
fever	ingested - rye blossoms
bedwetting, whooping cough, ague, chills, fever, smallpox, croup	ingested - cooked rat or mouse
fever blisters	applied - juice of poke berries
boils, infected cuts	applied - plaster made from gopher grass or fever grass (chrysopsis graminifolia) blade tea , with tallow, pine tar, beeswax and corn meal
bunions, scarlet fever, lockjaw, snakebites	applied - tobacco
colds, feed a cold	Feed a cold and starve a fever.
cold, fever	ingested - violet
cold, fever	ingested - whiskey, powdered hound’s-tongue
cold, fever	performed - running and counting ritual
dog sickness, malaria, cold, fever	performed - write formula on door, windows, table
fever	old field balsam
fever	ingested - wolf gut; performed - the head is burned in six places
fever	applied - poultice of freshly killed animal
fever	ingested - elder-blossom tea
fever	ingested - hot drinks
fever
fever, rheumatism	performed - ceremony, ritual
fever	worn - casket nails
fever	performed - starve fever patient
fever	worn - garter worn - stocking
fever	ingested - root of “mercurialis parvensis” with honey or water
fever	performed - ritual with horseshoes
fever	ingested - Marsh-trefoil infusion.
fever	ingested - Maidenhair fern.
fevers	Bugloss leaves
fevers	applied - Katoya, Sweet Pine, Balsam Fir, Abies lasio- carpa.
fever	ingested - distilled water of dandelion
fever	applied - leaves from the Palma Christi
fevers	pea balm
fever	ingested - water from fountain, night.
fever	Gopher of fever grass
fever	ingested - three kinds of food set out on Christmas eve (inundated with Christmas eve dew)
fever	applied - poultices using toads, doves, pigeons, frogs, sheep, chickens
fever	blessed water for fever cure
fever	performed - cook urine
fever	ingested - watermelon
fever blisters
fever	worn - spider in nutshell
fever
fever	performed - Placing a stick, with as many cuts as fevers, in the ground along the side of the road.
fever
fever	ingested - Elm bark and Jesuits’ bark
fever
fever	ingested - ample food (starve cold)
fever	applied - leaves of castor oil plant
fevers	performed - write charm on paper and “hie to a nut tree” before sunrise...
hay fever	applied - iodine to soles of feet
grippe, influenza, fever, kidneys	Lemons
liver pain
malaria	ingested - urine of seven year old child
nocturnal fever	applied - bedbugs in wool stolen from shepherds
quartan ague, chills, fever	Hangman’s rope.
quartan fever	applied - spider
scarlet fever
scarlet fever	worn - braided flax
scarlet fever
throat, sore
stone bruises	applied - Toad frog.
syphilis
tertian fever, maleria	applied - wolf spider, linen
tertian fever, maleria
teething, dentition, cutting teeth	worn - Bits of “glai” (Pontederia Cordata) around the neck
typhoid
patent medicines	ingested - Warburg’s Drops (cubebs, gentian, camphor, quinine, rhubarb, chalk, saffron, & aloes -- all rendered soluble in alcohol.
illness, healer traditions, three Nephites, fever	performed - prayers of Nephite, laying on of hands
animal products	Snakes
bones	worn - bone of dead person
cold, fever	performed - confession to winds
lungs, fevers, childbirth	ingested - sweet gum bark, mullein
illness, healing methods, bezoar
birth, childbed ailments, puerperal	ingested - rattlesnake gall, malitel, sweet balm tea
fever
fevers	performed - throw a handful of peas over shoulder
death, cause, portent
fever	worn - blue sweater
fever	performed - don’t change beds
fever	applied - poultice of Jimson weed leaves
fever blisters	applied - ice
fever	performed, eucalyptus leaves put under pillow
measles	ingested - catnip tea
scarlet fever
illness	ingested - sulfur and molasses
fever	performed - blow smoke up baby’s skirts
fever	applied - beaten thick egg whites on forehead
fever	ingested - tea made of borraja plant leaves
cold	ingested - hot toddy, whiskey, lemon juice
fever	applied - potato, vinegar
fever blisters
lung ailments, pulmonary ailments	worn - amber beads
stomach ailments	performed - healer woman’s remedy
colds, fevers	ingested - hot toddy of hot water, sugar, lemon juice, whiskey
colds	performed - feed patient
fever blisters
birth, afterpains, childbed ailments	applied - fat meat, black pepper, sulphur
hay fever	ingested - rhubarb, quinine
chapping, fever blisters, corns	applied - mutton tallow
fever	ingested - stale bread, ice, water
fever
fevers
illness	coin rubbing
venereal disease, gonorrhea, fever	ingested - Dutch-grass. Eleusine indica (L)
cold, fever	ingested - applied - Mahogany. Swietenia mahagani (L) Jacq.
fever	applied - wilted collard
fever	applied - ice packs
fever blisters, sores	performed - allow dog to lick sore
colds	ingested - Boneset (Eupatorium perfoliaturn L.)
ague, chills, fever	ingested - sulphur and molasses
chills	ingested - water in which peach-tree leaves have steeped
fever	ingested - tea from the inside bark of a willow tree
blood, tonic	ingested - creasy salad with raw spring onions
fever	ingested - butterfly root
fever	performed - steep red clover blossoms
fever	ingested - rye blossoms
fever	worn - lemon on wrist
fever	performed - spit three times.
fever	applied - bread and yeast.
scarlet fever	applied - blood of black cat.
hay fever	sunflower seeds.
scarlet fever	applied - split chicken
fever	performed - place bushel basket of onions under patient’s bed
colds	performed - feed or starve
fever	performed - make cross, spit
fever	applied - mustard
fever	ingested - whiskey
malaria	ingested - sulphate of quinine.
typhoid fever	applied - smoke from shoes of dead typhoid patient
yellow fever	cold weather
chills, fever, snakebite, toothache, heat stroke	ingested - whiskey
scarlet fever	applied - skin from breast bone and back of warm chicken
chills, fever, stomach troubles	ingested - Sampson's snake root: Aristolochia Serpentaria L.
yellow fever	applied - alcohol in which purple onions and garlic have roasted; cover patient until he sweats
cold, fever	worn - blessed wafer
colds, fevers	performed - elaborate ritual
cold, fever	ingested - first slices of nine loaves of bread
cold, fever	performed - recite charm; prayers
eye ailments	applied - fever fuge, honey; ingested - fever fuge, wine or ale, honey
fever	applied - tuob (steam); inhaled - chicken and buyo
fever	applied - meat poultices from black fowl
fever	applied - powdered camphor in fat or brandy
fever	ingested - boretsch (borage) tea
fever	ingested - bone-set tea
fever, skin diseases	performed - ceremony, ritual
fever	performed - fasting
fever	performed - place black feathers in pan and burn under bed
fever	ingested - raw egg, including shell
fever	performed - seal nail parings into aspen tree
fever	performed - starve fever patient
fever	performed - knot fever into garter, throw away garter
fever	worn - right foot shank of black dead hound on arm
fever	ingested - horsefly in beeswax in bread in brandy
fever	worn - Fresh linen containing salt, cobweb and onion around wrist.
fever	applied - Saddle of a mule bathed in sweat.
fever	ingested - Fruit of Magnolia.
fevers	Bugloss roots and seeds
fevers	applied - pine resin
fever	ingested - eating fever.
fever	performed - hang in home
fever	ingested - inner white membrane of pomegranate
fever	performed - bathing on Good Friday
fever	ingested - snakeroot
fever	applied - toad to pulse of patient’s right wrist
fever	ingested - well water each morning of fever
fever	ingested - decoction of willow cork
fever	performed - feed beef boiled in urine to black dog
fever	worn - live lizard
fever	Worn-spider in nutshell
fever	worn - We sheets wrapped around sufferer.
fever
fever
fever	performed - excrement of patient treated and buried, sulphur burned in sickroom
fever	performed - prayers sweat, “certain roots”
fever	ingested - Spanish fly (cantharides), brandy
fever	applied - castor bean leaves
fevers	performed - drive a hickory peg into the ground, blow on peg seven times each day.
gout	ingested - Teonacatl and honey
hay fever	performed - bathe daily in vinegar and warm water solution
headaches	ingested - Sarsaparilla Mead
hemoptysis	ingested - mixture of pulverized cinnamon bark, gum kino, cubebbs, alcohol; honey; sweet oil
malaria, fever	ingested - red- oak bark, water
malaria	ingested - feverweed (dogfennel)
milk sickness
measles	ingested - sheep dung, or sassafras tea.
quartan ague, chills, fever	applied - Menstrual flow.
quartan fever	performed - enclose a spider in a hazelnut shell
scarlet fever	worn - wormwood bags
scarlet fever	worn - red flannel
scurvy
scarlet fever	ingested - tablespoon of yeast in three tablespoon of warm water given three times daily, also applied to swelled throat.
tertian fever, maleria	performed - visit hermitage
tertian fever, maleria	performed - after preliminary ceremonies, attach a cord to the first tree one comes across
thorn wounds	applied - poultice of prickly pear leaves
typhoid
typhoid
ague, chills, fever	ingested - apple, spider web, lemon, sage, jesuit bark, tulip, dogwood, sulfur, sugar, peach tree bark, potentilla reptans leaves, applied - tobacco
illness, healing methods
fever
chills
colds, fevers, sore throat	ingested - rhubarb & soda
fever	applied - Leeches.
fever	applied - blankets performed - place knife under sufferer’s bed.
fever blisters	applied - cold iron
fever	performed, hold earlobe
ague, chills, fever
colds	ingested - beverage made from fresh peppermint or rosemary leaves
fever	worn - Lord’s Prayer written on cloth
fever	applied - egg whites on feet
fever	worn - cake made from cinnamon and saliva
fever	applied - potato, vinegar
influenza	applied - salt bags
yellow fever	ingested - mixture of salt, water, lemon juice, castor oil; whisky with ginger performed - keep warm
colds, fevers	ingested - hot whiskey and lemon juice with sugar and water added
colds	performed - feed patient
fever blisters
hay fever	performed - chew honeycomb
chills	ingested - turpentine and cold coffee
chills, fever, malaria	black oak
chills, fever	performed - tie knots in yarn, tie around tree
fever	applied - poma christian
spring fever	ingested - sulfur and molasses
scarlet fever, measles, chicken pox	ingested - saffron
skin pinching	skin pinching
ague, chills, fever	ingested - egg-shell
chills, fever
fever	performed - feed cold, starve fever
fever	ingested - decoction of lemon tree roots
fever	performed - bathe in vinegar
rheumatic fever, rickets	ingested - “Willy Romel” tea
chills	ingested - quinine in coffee or quinine capsules
fever	ingested - parched earthworms
fever
fever	ingested - spicewood tea
fever	applied - cow manure warm from the cow
fever	performed - spit
scarlet fever	ingested - cobweb
scarlet fever	ingested - warm lemonade applied - hot cloth on stomach
colds
fever	worn - walnut shell, spider.
fever	applied - palm of Christian leaves, water.
fever
yellow fever	ingested - whiskey
asthma, ague, chills, fever	ingested - boiled carrots [also, cobwebs]
colds, fevers	performed - eating performed - fasting
colds, fevers	performed - elaborate ritual
cold, fever	ingested - salted wine, lemon kernels with water
cold, fever
dropsy, edema	ingested - Nanny tea (=sheep-dung tea)
dysentery, chills, fever	ingested - wine and brandy, hot and spiced or mixed with pepper
fever	Catzotl root
fever	boneset
fever	applied - freshly killed animal “innards”
fever	applied - mixture of butter, olive oil and powdered quinine
fever	worn - carbuncle
fever	ingested - boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum L.; thoroughwort), gin or rum
fever	applied - collard leaves
fever	performed - place black feathers in pan and burn under bed
fever
fever	performed - bury fingernail parings under aspen tree
fever	performed - starve fever patient
fever	performed - make tie in garter; throw garter away
fevers	Heite tree (Thespesia populnea)
fever	performed - leave sick behind
fever	performed - Looking at marigold first thing in the morning.
fever	ingested - Bark of Magnolia.
fevers	applied - burdock leaves
fevers	ingested - pine top tea
illness, botanical treatment
fever	applied - onions
fever
fever	performed - pull off with teeth the heads of the first fern.
fever	performed - dip red thread into fountain, tie around tree trunk.
fever	applied - Guava and pomelo to forehead
fever	performed - celebrate Thursday before Easter
fever	performed - tie as many knots in a thread as number of days since fever began, then throw knots into running water.
fever, night fever, mivard	ingested - Red oak bark (Quercus maxima) tea
fever	ingested - snakeroot
fever	worn - toad killed with sharp instrument
fever	ingested - mixed water from seven wells
fever
fever	Worn-spider in nutshell
fever	ingested - A julep of sorrel juice.
fever	performed - burn an old shoe
fever
fever
fever	performed - touch a sword that has cut off someone’s head and been subsequently soaked in wine.

Fever

Condition

Method Of Treatment

ingested - Ram-goat-dash (or rush)-along. Turnera ulmifolia L.

worn - jimson weeds on head

performed - wrap in many blankets and sweat

Boiled persimmon tree bark

applied - cold water packs

worn - sycamore leaves

ingested - boneset tea

snakeroot

performed - bathe in vinegar and water

performed - change wedding ring to other hand.

performed - wipe tongue with soiled diaper.

performed - feed or starve

Rattlesnake bones.

applied - mullet leaves.

applied - yeast

applied - hot vinegar

performed - stick hair (Negro wool) tied in red flannel stuck in crack of door

ingested - rye blossoms

ingested - rhubarb, quinine

ingested - green frogs, butter, alum, rattlesnake’s gall

performed - feed a cold and starve a fever

performed - prayer during Lent

performed - exorcism

performed - transference ritual

performed - baptism

applied - ingested - slippery elm bark

ingested - Dried and powdered human excrement, one scruple to a drachm

ingested - Elder

Thunder arrows and axes

applied - fatback on wrists

ingested - applied - warm, raw heart and liver; backbone necklace

ingested - catnip tea

ingested - tea from roots

ingested - tea made from roots of Dog Fennel

applied - colocynthis, rose-oil, and vinegar

applied - agate on head of patient

performed - bleeding

ingested - boiled milk with chestnuts

ingested - boneset (Eupatoria) tea

ingested - bretzeln or geese eggs

Blessed mistletoe

performed - mix nail parings with tobacco into cigarette; drop at cross-roads without looking up

Odor of onion

performed - sweat baths

performed - elaborate ritual

ingested - water from same bucket as horse

ingested - Liver of a seven-year old mouse.

Bugloss leaves

performed - break pine top with face turned towards the setting sun

ingested - dandelion, agrimony, ver-juice, rue, crab’s eyes and claws, yarrow

ingested - vinegar, onion

ingested - pumpkin

ingested - peas, bacon

ingested - golden seal.

ingested - hard boiled eggs on Good Friday

applied - green Jimson weed leaves

ingested - mixture of Rosemary and 24 other herbs including pepper and gum mastic

ingested - snakeroot tea

performed - ritual with frog, urine, earthen pot

performed - place patient on shore when tide is coming in

applied - decoction of willow bark

applied - urine

Watermelon

applied - moistened match.

spiders

worn - Seahorse on the left arm.

ingested - Earth from around tomb of Saint Thomas with water.