Millard County Chronicle | 1931-12-31 | Page 4 | Fearful and Wonderful Cures for Various Ills

fearful arav and wonderful 0 cures for vanlua ills an ancient cure for toot toothache bache was to leant an offering of meat on a stone whatever bird tool too tl e food away assumed also the burden of the complaint compla hit almost inbred bly ch id sh was that procedure for removing a sta st e from the eye all tl at was need ed here was to push one end of a st cl in the tire point tte ile blaz blazing end to wards the affected eye and w h ri it round rapidly in a circle repeating go baak bat k go back an old fish erman persisted that he had seen tl s cure ai at d that it actually worked hie ilic cup was wis quite simply cured by accas ing tug tho patient of theft but a stiff neck was to be squeezed between tle tl e legs of the tongs before it would yield to treatment another curious treat ment meat tor for toothache the malady would at one be banished it if a dead mans finger or a nail from his coffin was put in th the mouth the afflicted person bad had to go to the graveyard himself to procure this