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   stomack for an ailment called "The Chin-cough".

   Another cure is to rub a sty with a gooseberry thorn nine times to cure it. It is said that if you climb an oak tree, it will cure a disease called Palsy.

   I got these cures from my neighbours. locally
   Signed Joe Heffernan
   Grange Hill
   Newbridge
   Co. Kildare

   

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2. Local Cures

   

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   The following cures are common in the locality. Many old people in this locality cure chilblains with a raw onion. A raw onion will also cure a cold, and scalded buttermilk will cure a cold also. If you rub a snail to a wart and then hang the snail on a bush, the next morning the wart will be cured. If you point a gooseberry thorn to a stye on the eye, the next morning the stye will be gone. If you rub washing soda on a wart three times every day, the wart will disappear. Castor oil will cure a wart. I got this information from my father

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Teresa Gorry

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Hawkfield, Co. Kildare

   Informant

   Mr Michael Gorry

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   52

   Address

   Hawkfield, Co. Kildare