Identifier
NFAI.O.00001089

Summary

Box 6 contains four archival containers numbered 1-4, each container filled with index cards describing proverbs and folk medicine collected from the Eastern Shore. Portions of the cards are organized by subject while others are organized by collector.
 

,Container 1 includes the following headings:

• Chills
• Choking
• Colds
• Cold and Fever
• Colds and Cough
• Colic
• Complexion
• Congestion
• Consumption
• Coughs
• Corns
• Toe Cracks
• Cramps
• Asafetida
• Arthritis
• Aching Feet
• Abortion
• Acid Stomach
• E.S. Superstitions
• Eating
• Evil
• Eyes
• Luck
• Veil
• Walking
• Weather
• Whistling
• Wishing
• Witches
• Bruise
• Burns
• Callouses
• Carbuncles
• Chapping
• Checken Pox
• Chills
• Autograph Rhyme
• Sayings
• E.S. Toungue Twister
• Sayings/Auto. Verse
• Luck
• Sayings E.S. Riddles
• E.S. Infrm. Info.

,Container 2 includes the following headings:

• E.S. Auto. Verse
• Sayings
• Weather
• Sayings
• Misc. (Smigo)
• E.S. 68-39 [Misc. Leonard]
• E.S. 68-40 [Misc. Embleton]
• E.S. 68-41
• E.S. 68-45
• E.S. 69-4
• Misc. - Nelson
• Misc. 
• Clothes
• Birds
• Birth
• Bible
• Bed
• Babies - Children
• Company
• Clothing
• Animals
• MISC Misfiled
• Superstitions
• Sayings
• Worms
• Warts
• Venereal Disease
• Urinating
• Ulcers
• Sty
• Stuffy Nose
• Stammering
• Spring Tonic
• Sprains
• Splinters
• Sunstroke
• Sweats
• Swelling
• T.B. 
• Thrush
• Toothache
• Trots

,Container 3 includes the following headings:

• Boils
• Blood Pressure
• Blood
• Birth Pains
• Bleeing
• Bee Sting
• Misc. (Speiden)
• "Customs/Sayings" (Speiden)
• "Short Legends" (Speiden)
• Bedwetting
• Backache
• Baby Ills
• Athlete's Foot
• Asthma
• ES 68-46
• ES 68-42 (Rosewell)
• ES 68-43 (Johnston)
• ES 69-3 (Misc. Brooks)
• Misc. 
• Warts
• Misc.
• Donahoe
• Water/Boat
• Dialect
• E.S. Expressions
• E.S. Games Rhymes
• E.S. Place Names
• E.S. Tall Tales
• E.S. Legends
• E.S. Grafitti
• ES Proverbs
• Feet
• Fingers and Nails
• Fishing
• Flowers
• Friday
• Friendship
• Ghost
• Growth
• Grave
• Hair
• Hands
• Insects
• Lightning
• Love
• Lying
• Sewing
• Shoes 
• Snakes
• Sneezing
• Speaking
• Sweeping 
• Toads
• Threes
• Teeth
• Travel
• Animals
• Death
• Departure & Return

,Container 4 includes the following headings:

• Bad Luck
• Marriage
• Maritime
• Misc.
• Moving
• Moon
• Money
• News
• New Years & Holidays
• Nose
• Pine
• Planting
• Pregnancy
• Salt
• Animals/Luck
• Cooking 
• Company
• Courtship
• Crying
• Death
• Devil
• Dreams
• Ears
• Cramps
• Croup
• Cure Alls
• Cuts 
• Dandruff
• Dew Crack
• Diabetes
• Diarrhea
• Diphtheria
• Dystentery
• Earache
• Object in Eye
• Fever
• Fever Blister
• Foot Cramps
• Freckles
• Frostbite
• Flu
• Hangover
• Headache
• Heart Trouble
• Hemmoroids
• Hiccoughs
• Indegestion
• Insomnia
• Itch
• Kernels
• Kidneys
• Laryngitis
• Laxative
• Lice
• Liniment
• Love Potion
• Measles
• Moles
• Mumps
• Nail Infection
• Nausea 
• Nerves
• Neuritis
• Nosebleeds
• Pains
• Pneumonia
• Poison
• Poison Ivy/oak
• Pregnancy
• Rash
• Rheumatism
• Rickets
• Ringworm
• Scarlet Fever
• Scratches
• Soft Bones
• Sores
• Sore Stomach
• Sore Throat
• Misc. Cards Headings

Part Of
Series 2: George Carey