Table II.
Ailment | No of References Recorded |
---|---|
Group A | |
Asthma | 35 |
Burn(s) | 101 |
Cramp (differently interpreted by respondents) | 64 (+1 animal) |
Epilepsy | 28 |
Erysipelas | 31 |
Headache | 70 |
Jaundice | 37 |
Mumps | 62 |
Rickets | 11 |
Sprain | 120 |
Stye | 113 (+ 1, also for ‘sore eyes’) |
Toothache | 104 |
Warts | 162 |
Whooping Cough | 134 |
Group B | |
Abscesses | 2 |
Bed Wetting | 1 |
Bloodlessness | 1 |
Boils | 3 |
Cancer | 4 (+1, malignant skin disease) |
Chilblains | 3 |
Cold (possibly in horse) | 1 |
Cooling Blood | 1 |
Corns | 1 |
Cough (human or horse) | 1 |
Cut | 2 |
Earache | 1 |
Eczema | 1 |
Foreign Body in Eye | 2 |
Hiccough | 5 |
Hydrophobia | 1 |
Infectious Diseases | 1 |
Influenza | 1 |
Kidney Trouble | 1 |
Measles | 3 |
Purgative | 1 |
Quinsy | 1 |
Rheumatism | 3 |
Ringworm | 7 |
Scald | 2 |
Shingles | 1 |
Sore | 1 |
Sore Eyes | 4 |
Sore Throat | 3 |
Stings | 3 |
Stomach Ache/Ailment | 4 |
Thrush (Oral) | 1 |
Tuberculosis | 4 (+1, ‘early TB’) |
Ulcer | 1 |
Varicose Veins | 1 |
Wind/Colic | 1 |
Wounds | 1 |