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his finger, and make a cross right on the calf of his leg. He done it, and it cured him every time. He says he don’t know of anything better’n that for cramps.”
Wear a piece of red woollen yarn around your neck, and it will keep you from haying the nosebleed. “My brother had to do that.”
If you have a sore throat, tie one of the stockings you have worn through the day around your neck when you go to bed. The sore throat can’t stand that, and will have left by morning. The stocking should be tied on with the hollow of the foot next to the throat.
Some people. keep themselves from taking contagious diseases by wearing a silver piece on a string around their neck. When, presently, the silver piece turns black, they know the silver has done good work in absorbing diseases that otherwise might have killed them. From a physician’s point of view, however, this black on the coin is the effect on the silver of the sulphur in the secretions of the skin.
A good many people have an idea that a person enjoys better -health, and lives longer, if he is in the habit of sleeping with his head to the north. The impor-
