Tell about home cures or old wives tales about hiccups, toothaches, earaches, etc.

I wrote a whole term paper on the very thing. Russell needed one at Logan when he went back to school, but it has been lost. What I remember from home was [when we] had earaches my mother put a light globe in a round oatmeal box and put it over my ear. The heat would sometimes stop the earache.  Cayenne pepper was good for most anything. Also sassafras tea. To stop hiccups you get a mouth full of cold water and hold it. This should stop the hiccups. We also had some salve made from the sap of the pine tree that cured infection and it really worked.

We used lots of milk poultices to draw out infection. A cold washrag wrung out in alcohol over your forehead would stop a headache.