I found this to be quite interesting, but what is most interesting are the remedies for the ailments.............Edd gout / performed - put right stocking on in morning croup / performed - plugging with hair Cure for croup: bore a hole in a fruit tree, then make a plug to fit the hole. Place the patient against the tree and place the end of his hair in the hole and insert the plug. After cutting off the hair, pound the plug in more securely (M.W., Fs 55, bookkeeper, Eng., Wayne, 1957). The Online Archive of American Folk Medicine was established in 1996 under the direction of Dr. Michael Owen Jones, a professor of folklore and history at UCLA. http://www.folkmed.ucla.edu/FMResults.cfm -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 1469 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message