Volume: CBÉ 0265

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1. Cures (continued)

   

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   Rheumatism -
   (1) Take one drop of turpentine in water & increase dose by one drop on each of nine mornings & in the meantime apply turpentine on red flannel to the affected parts.
   (2) apply a green cabbage leaf
   (3) Plaster of pitch

   Wound -
   (1) Cover with skin of egg
   (2) Cover with cobweb

   Cuts or Sores - Dogs lick

   Measles or Yellow Jaundice - Boil sheep dung in milk & drink milk when strained off.

   Whooping Cough -
   (1) Ass is brought in on floor & patient passed 3 times under & over it in home (in home of father, son etc)
   (2) Ass eats loaf and patient eats crumbs that drop from its mouth
   (3) Ass eats hot stirabout & patient eats asses resulting excrement.

   (N.B. Mrs Keenan of Kyle told me that she herself saw this being done when a youngster).

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