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   water and leave something on the tree beside the well, and do rounds, it will cure you. If you have a pain in your knee or knuckles poultice with cattle manure, and it will cure it. A person that has healing powers is called a Quack-doctor. The seventh child of a seventh child is supposed to have a charm.
   If a child has the chin-cough put him in and out under a grey horse's legs three times and it will cure him. If you have the whooping cough, ask a man on a grey horse what will cure it. Whatever he tells you, do it, and you will be cured. If you have a cough, catch a frog and boil it in milk. When the milk is boiled throw away the frog and drink the milk.

   

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2. Local Cures

   

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   You could cure a toothache with pepper or mustard or snuff. To cure a sore throat you must get an onion and cut it in slices, and put sugar in between the slices, and leave it there for a night and in the morning strain the juice off it, and drink the juice. It will give you great relief. Put burned salt in a

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   Topics

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

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