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1. Old Cures

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   In olden times the people used many things as cures for different ailments. An old cure for a sore throat is roasted salt put in bag and tied around your neck. Roasted Oat Meal is a cure for an earache. Black tea is a cure for sore eyes. When a pot of potatoes is boiling the froth that comes on the water is a cure for swellon on your finger if you put your finger into it. To put a child under an ass foal that never was ridden is a cure for the chin-cough. Another cure for the chin-cough is to give to the child whatever a ferret leaves behind him. A cure for the Measles is to boil nettles in sweet milk, and drink the milk.

   To cure a wart is to get a black snail and rub him to the wart three times and stick him on a white thorn bush and while he is withering the wart will be withering. A cure for a stye on the eye is to pull nine goose-berry thorns on a

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   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

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   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Mary Alice Mc Gowan

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   Baineann

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   Edergole, Co. Leitrim