If you had a sty in your eye and to go out in the garden three mornings after one another and tp point nine thorns of a gooseberry bush at it it' would go.
If you had a wart on your finger and to rub a black snail of it and to the hang him on a bush while he would be getting rotten the ward would go.
A great cure for chincough was to drink ferrets leaving. Another cure for chincough was if you met a man riding on a white horse whatever he would tell