For ear aches daddy always blew smoke from his corn cob pipe into our ears. I'm just mentioning corn cob pipe as that was all he smoked. He passed away in 1950 and I will always remember those pipes. Thank you for mentioning ear aches. Antoinette waughtel@oz.net Kathy Bemisdarfer wrote: > For Ear Aches our family used to take sweet oil warm it and put a few drops > in the ear and a piece of > cotton to keep the oil in. > > Tobacco was suppose to be able to draw out the poison from Copperhead > bites. > > ==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== > #7 "Roll Calls" or such by other names are to be called > by the SYSOP ONLY. NO WARNINGS!! Each member is free to post their > SURNAMES anytime they please. -- Researching: Alkire, Breckenridge, Burton, Cann, Claypool(e), Denton, Daugherty, Dunbar, Evans, Gorrell, Hagan, Jimenez, Keel, Keith, Kern/es, Ladner, Lawler, Leffler, Littell, Merrifield, Norris, Pettyjohn, Ponsler, Robertson, Robinson, Rogers, Sinex, Sinnickson, Stiddem/Stidham, Tossawa/Tussey, Vantreese, Wachtel/Waughtel, Walker, White, Wilcox, Winfield