Browse:Like Cures Like (Volume 1, entries 1033–1034)
Like Cures Like
Volume 1, entries 1033–1034. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → FOLK MEDICINE → FOLK MEDICINE (1) PRINCIPLES OF HEALING. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 1033
Some of 'em, dey take - lak if yo' been poisoned through a snake or Worms, yo' take dat worm an' yo' make a stew out of it an' yo' git dat oil up in dat watah. It get everything in de world dat oil will [see No. 978, p.374]. Yo' kin take dat oil from dat watah den an' make a poultice an' rub wit it. Yo' going spit up dose things. (They take these worms after they come out of you?) No, dey don't take these worms dat come outa yo' to make dat grease wit; dey git some othah worms. Dey cain't git dem worms out chew tuh make de grease Wit it. Dey go an' git some othah worils an' make de grease wit it. Dey make dat poultice an' dat make dat scent, an' dat live worm in yo' ketch de scent from de worm on de outside - dey comin' out.
Entry 1034
I had a - suffer with this myself. A lady went and got some - had a lizard and took the blood from this lizard and the boil of this lizard [the Water in which lizard was boiled] and took the boil of this lizard and mixed it with the blood.
(Mixed what with it?)
Of the boil - you see, had boiled the lizard low in hot water, and took the blood and put this in some whiskey and give to her by night - jes' like you was drinking liquor. And well, when she drink this liquor he took and had a lizard drin [drained into her] you might say. And she could feel somepin runnin' all through her head, jes' after taking a drink and well, when this would happen, she'd jes' get up and holler and she said somepin was runnin' all through her head. And this action was kept up for about - kept up for almost six months before they went to this - to my grand-daddy to see what was the matter with her. And so, well, they paid out a big doctor bill and the doctor couldn't - the more medicine they gave her, she just about go crazy. Well, he [qrand-daddy] told her what to do. He told her to actually take to go get a lizard and as many as she could and get the blood from those lizards and put some turpentine in and take some turpentine and salts - Epsom salts and drink this - actually drink it, and that stuff would run this out of her system. She actually done that and she got all right.
(She had to drink some of that lizard blood for that?)
She had to take that in order to get rid of it - to run it out of system.