Hello Peggy - I remember when I was real young my Grandad telling about a madstone in his family. I didn't really understand what it was at the time, just knew it as an interesting story. When I was in high school in Lee County, TX in the 1950's, there was a story in the local paper about a man who had a madstone that had been passed down in his family to him. Then I realized what my Grandad was talking about. Incidentally, my grandad, William Harrison Williams, came to Texas from Morgan County KY when he was a young boy, ending up Coryell County, TX. He was the son of William Letcher Williams and Narcissa Whitt. Best wishes to you... Carl Williams, in Parker Co., TX [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 10:06 AM Subject: [KYMORGAN] Re: Old Home remedies >Ann, >My grandfather Philip Henry Amyx and grandmother Mary Catherine (Fannin) >Amyx moved from Morgan County, Kentucky to Oklahoma (Indian Territory) in >1906. From family stories, he had a "madstone" he brought from Kentucky with >him. > >The stone was 2 1/2 inches in diameter, slate gray and not completely round. >The stone was used for snake bites and dog bites, etc. The stone was also >used on livestock. Story is that my grandfather traded for it from an Indian >in Kentucky. The stones are supposedly found in cow and deer stomachs. They >soaked the stone in milk before applying it to the bite. A foam-like >substance (green and yellow) would form and fall off. The procedure was >repeated until the foam-substance would quit forming. > >A member of our family still has 1/2 of the stone which was broken in two >pieces. > >Don't know if this is what you want - but thought interesting. >Peggy Walker > >