Condition |
Method Of Treatment |
lice |
applied - kerosene |
jaundice |
ingested - three lice in preserved fruit with bread |
jaundice |
ingested - lice in boiling water |
lice |
applied “Red percipity” (precipitate) |
lice |
|
teething, dentition, cutting teeth |
worn - bag of wood lice; bag of unspecified bugs |
illness, healing methods |
|
urinary ailments |
performed - put lice in urinals |
lice |
applied - kerosene |
lice |
|
lice |
applied - larkspur tea |
ear ailments, inflammation |
applied - olive oil, wood lice |
jaundice |
ingested - egg with seven lice, performed - urinate on a thistle bush before sunrise, and stare at a white limestone wall or the current of a river at midnight or at sunrise. |
jaundice |
ingested - lice with bread |
lice |
performed - wash hair with first rain of May |
kidneys |
ingested - decoction of Lappula virginiana (D) Greene (Hound’s Tongue, Beggar Lice) |
lice |
|
lice |
applied = horseradish, slaked lime |
rickets |
ingested - 9 lice on 9 consecutive days |
rickets |
performed - lice, tie legs, have cord cut at crossroads. |
thrush |
worn - nine live wood lice in bag |
wounds |
cod fin lice |
circumcision |
|
abortions |
ingested - shield lice |
teething, dentition, cutting teeth |
worn - variety of charms (see text) |
lice |
applied - oil, kerosene |
lice |
applied - kerosene |
health, longevity |
|
illness, healer traditions |
|
jaundice |
ingested - lice |
vermin, lice |
applied - kerosene |
lice |
|
lice |
applied - first rain of May |
yellow jaundice |
ingested - lice |
jaundice |
ingested - lice on bread and butter |
jaundice |
ingested - lice |
jaundice |
ingested - lice with milk |
lice |
|
lice |
|
smallpox |
use of wood lice |
teething, dentition, cutting teeth |
worn - wood lice around neck |
illness, healing methods |
|
lice |
Rain from first day of May |
hair |
|
mental retardation |
|
lice |
applied - kerosene, Fels Naptha Soap |
children, lice |
|
dreaming, dreams |
|
lice |
performed - bathe head in kerosene |
lice |
applied - first rain in May |
yellow jaundice |
ingested - pills of sheep lice, flour, sugar |
jaundice |
ingested - flour, water, lice |
jaundice |
ingested - lice with bread |
lice |
|
pruritus |
Ground lice |
smallpox |
wood lice in a flannel bag |
illness, healer traditions |
|
lice |
ingested - piece of bread spread with lice |
lice |
applied - sand and alcohol |
lice |
applied - coal oil |
lice |
worn - Leave on lice on you head. |
lice |
ingested - sulphur |
jaundice |
ingested - nine lice on bread and butter |
lice |
applied - sulphur and grease |
yellow jaundice |
ingested - sheep lice in food |
jaundice |
ingested - lice, bread, butter. |
crab lice |
|
jaundice |
ingested - lice on bread and butter |
jaundice |
ingested - 9 lice in milk or chocolate |
lice |
|
lice |
|
lice |
applied - Hellebore |
syphilis |
Lignum guajaci |
lice |
performed - wash your hair and comb often |
lice |
performed - blow tobacco smoke in ears |
lice |
applied - kerosene performed - combing |
teeth |
|
lice |
applied - larkspur |
dreaming, dreams |
|
lice |
applied - red pacifity, hog lard |
fever |
worn - red ants, wood lice |
teething, dentition, cutting teeth |
worn - nine red ants or wood lice in bag around neck |
yellow jaundice |
ingested - sheep lice in milk |
jaundice |
wood lice |
crab lice |
|
jaundice |
ingested - water containing lice |
jaundice |
ingested - wine in which 9 lice have stood overnight |
jaundice |
ingested - “dirty things,” such as lice and millipedes |
jaundice |
ingested - sandwich with lice in it, without patient’s foreknowledge |
jaundice |
ingested - lice on sandwich |
lice |
|
lice |
ingested - decoction of henbane |
urinary ailments |
applied - lice |
illness, cause, portent |
|
illness, healing methods |
|
teething |
|
lice |
applied - kerosene |
lice |
goat’s milk |
disease, portent, dreams |
|
lice |
applied - o’possum grease, parsley root |
jaundice |
ingested - louse tea |
crab lice |
applied - capuchin powder, hog’s lard, boiled cammock |
jaundice |
ingested - lice mixed into bread or put in apple |
lice |
|
lice |
|
lice |
applied - oil of hyssop |
scrofula |
|
tuberculosis |
ingested - elaborated ceremony |
urinary ailments |
applied - lice |
medical history |
|
delivery, midwife |
|
illness, healer traditions |
|
lice |
applied - kerosene applied - DDT powder |
lice |
applied - coal oil |
lung ailments |
ingested - sheep lice. |
insects, bugs, redbugs, lice, nits |
performed - kill bugs, bathe with water and lye soap, smear body with soft butter |
jaundice |
ingested - sheep lice |
lice |
|
jaundice |
ingested - butter-cake upon which lice have been put |
jaundice |
ingested - cattle lice on bread and butter without patient’s foreknowledge performed - tell patient afterward |
lice |
|
lice |
|
lice |
applied - bark of handu trees |
pediculosis |
applied - salve of snuff and butter; nicotine solution |
urinary ailments |
ingested - lice |
medical history |
|
character, talents, portents, singing |
|
lice |
sulpher, lard, coal oil |
thrush, thrash |
worn - wood lice |
teething, dentition, cutting teeth |
worn - wood lice on string around neck |
teething, dentition, cutting teeth |
worn - wood lice around neck |
lice |
applied - soft butter mixed with tobacco tea on hair and head |
lice |
larkspur tea |
jaundice |
ingested - odd number of lice |
jaundice |
ingested - lice upon piece of bread and butter |
lice |
performed - grease chicken’s head with lard and kerosene |
lice |
|
lice |
|
lice |
|
malnutrition |
applied - lice |
illness |
|
head |
|
jaundice |
ingested - lice with bread |
teething |
|
lice |
performed - use a fine toothed comb |
fortune |
performed - old man places his own lice in child’s hair |
insects, bugs, redbugs, lice, nits |
applied - kerosene in ring around ankles |
lice |
|
colds, fevers |
ingested - lice in jam on bread |
fever |
ingested - five or six living lice |
jaundice |
ingested - hog lice |
jaundice |
ingested - lice on bread and butter |
lice |
performed - comb hair and wash hair twice a week; buy limes from vegetable man |
lice |
performed - comb hair carefully on morning of St. John’s Day |
lice |
|
lice |
|
scarlet fever |
ingested - lice |
worms, nits, lice |
performed - fumigation with henbane smoke |
quack |
|
consumption |
|
occult powers, clairvoyance, second sight |
|
lice |
performed - use a fine toothed comb |
chills |
ingested - sheep lice in jelly |
lice |
applied - sassafras |
epilepsy |
wood-lice |
erysipelas |
Wood lice. |
jaundice |
ingested - powdered lice |
lice |
|
lice |
applied - oil of southern wood |
lice |
|
lice |
|
lice |
|
colds |
ingested - boiled and strained grapefruit mash |
human body |
Sow bugs, body lice, toads |
lice |
ingested - sassafras, beer |
eye ailments |
|
diabetes |
“Diabesan” |
lice |
applied - Oil of sassafras |
fever |
|
jaundice |
ingested - thimbleful of lice by dog |
lice |
|
lice |
applied - thick sassafras bark shampoo |
lice |
|
lice |
|
illness, cause, portent |
|
teething |
|
hair |
|
lice |
worn - eelskin band |
thrush |
ingested - nine live wood lice in breast milk |
thrush, thrash, sore mouth |
worn - wood lice around neck |
illness, cause, portent |
|
lice |
applied - bacon grease |
jaundice |
ingested - living lice in white wine |
jaundice |
ingested - water into which 9 lice have been put |
jaundice |
ingested - lice gruel |
lice |
applied - Skunk cabbage |
lice |
applied - inner bark of black alder tree boiled in vinegar |
children, diseases |
applied - a bag of red ants |
cancer |
|
teething |
|
leg ailments |
|
conjury, objects in body, animal |
|
lice |
applied - fresh lard |
jaundice |
ingested - lice |
jaundice |
ingested - lice with jam |
jaundice |
ingested - nine lice |
lice |
applied - red percipity [precipitate], coal oil |
lice |
|
lice |
ingested - hartshorn, brandy |
illness, cause, portent |
|
illness |
|
illness |
performed - transference |
lice |
|
head lice |
applied - coal oil performed - wash hair |
lice |
applied - strong lye soap |
jaundice |
ingested - lice |
jaundice |
ingested - brandy into which nine lice have been put |
jaundice |
ingested - nine lice on bread and butter |
jaundice |
ingested - infusion of lice |
lice |
applied - Parsley seed |
lice |
Renal albumen from urine |
lice |
|
lice |
ingested - powder of hartshorn, wine |
lice |
applied - wash of boiled cammock |
baby |
|
lice |
|
death, cause, portent, animals, insects |
|
teething |
worn - wood lice |
conjury, sexual fidelity |
|
teething, dentition, cutting teeth |
worn - nine red ants, or nine wood lice, or nine pieces of sweatband from father’s hat in bag around neck |
typhoid fever |
ingested - nine boogers (lice), bread |
jaundice |
ingested - nine lice on bread and butter |
lice |
|
lice |
deer suet |
lice |
performed - upon hearing cuckoo, pick up soil from under right foot |
lice |
|
thrush |
worn - bag containing nine live wood lice |
lice, nits |
|
jaundice |
ingested - cookie made of head lice |
lice |
performed - injections, shots |
jaundice |
ingested - nine lice on bread and butter |
lice |
|
foot, feet, sores |
performed - hoodoo magic |
lice |
|
lice |
performed - leave some lice in hair |
lice |
|
lice |
applied - kerosene |
phthisis |
ingested - lice |
sores |
applied - bear oil, hound’s tongue, beggar lice |
hair, cutting, lice |
|
teeth ailments |
performed - extraction by blacksmith |
lice |
performed - wishing ritual with lice |
lice |
|
jaundice |
ingested - gunpowder, head lice |
time of birth |
|
jaundice |
ingested - live lice |
jaundice |
ingested - sheep lice |
lice |
Pine tree |
lice |
|
malaria |
ingested - lice, water |
lice |
applied - coal oil |
scurvy |
wood lice |
teething, dentition, cutting teeth |
worn - wood lice bag |
teething |
performed - make amulet of wood lice |
character, fortune, cause, portent |
|
cough |
ingested - onion and sugar syrup |
lice |
performed - shave head, apply lemon juice, baking soda. |
illness, cause, portent |
|
teething, dentition, cutting teeth |
worn - wood lice in bag around the neck |
jaundice |
ingested - lice without patient’s knowledge in chocolate, wine, soup, or corn silk infusion |
lice |
ingested - eat snake boiled with potatoes performed - cut bump below stomach |
lice |
|
lice |
applied - coal oil |
lice |
applied - kerosene |
parasites |
applied - warm wash of root of meadow boiled in water |
quack |
|
character, disposition |
|
lice |
applied - tobacco |
prophetic dreams |
|
digestion, gout, fever, toothache, infection, lice |
ingested - inhaled - tobacco (smoked or infused) |
jaundice |
ingested - lice |
jaundice |
ingested - lice on bread and butter |
lice |
Parsley seeds |
lice |
|
lice |
broom boiled in oil |
lice |
performed - carry donkey tail |
teething, dentition, cutting teeth |
worn - red ants, wood lice, or sweatband |
illness, cause, portent |
|
quack |
|
lice |
applied - snuff, oil |
sickness, portent |
|
teething, dentition, cutting teeth |
worn - three lice in a cloth around baby’s neck |
fever |
ingested - three sets of nine lice (baked) |
heart |
ingested - water w/ lice |
jaundice |
ingested - lice on bread and butter; lice swallowed alive |
lice |
|
nits |
applied - calf’s bile |
scrofula |
ingested - wood lice |
strength, weakness |
|
lice |
applied - gasoline, kerosene |
baby |
|
lice |
|
jaundice |
ingested - lice |
jaundice |
ingested - lice on bread and butter |
lice |
applied - English tobacco juice |
lice |
performed - place louse in black cloth on head of corpse |
lice |
|
lice, nits |
ingested - filed hartshorn |
lice |
|
illness, healing methods |
|
birth, delivery, labor |
ingested - lice |
lice |
applied - coal oil, kerosene |
baby |
|
lice |
applied - mixed calomel and grease |
anaemia, anemia |
ingested - eat lice while fasting |
anaemia, anemia |
ingested - lice which have bitten someone |
cold, fever |
ingested - food mixed with spiders, ear wax, mouse blood, lice |
jaundice |
ingested - live lice in a teaspoonful of raspberry jam |
kidneys |
beggar lice |
lice |
|
lice |
performed - allow clothes to be exposed to blowing wind |
lice |
applied - fishberry and lard |
illness, supernatural cause, treatment |
|
lice |
performed - put lice in bottle, cork bottle |
lice |
applied - coal oil |
illness |
worn - wood lice |
lice |
applied - mixed indigo and hog lard |
sickness |
applied - lice |
headaches |
ingested - juice or powder or distilled water of hog lice |
lice |
|
lice |
performed - washing clothes at end of month |
lice |
|
pneumonia |
ingested - Five or six lice in egg yolk. |
pregnancy |
|
birth, delivery, labor |
ingested - lice in ashes of wood |
illness, cause, portent, animals |
|
lice |
applied - coal oil, kerosene |
conjury, objects in body, animal |
|
illegitimate child |
|
ague, chills, fever |
ingested - nine headlice rolled up in a bread crumb pill |
jaundice, green sickness |
ingested - head lice |
lice |
applied - kerosene |
lice |
applied - ointment of quicksilver and butter |
lice |
performed - inter lice in coffin. |
lice |
ingested - figs |
menstruation |
performed - catch seven lice at night |
cancer |
applied - Lice |
lice |
applied - kerosene |
jaundice |
ingested - nine lice on piece of bread and butter |
colic |
worn - cloth bag containing nine wood lice |
snakebite |
applied - black hen, soda, eye soap, sucking , worn - snake |