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1. Local Cures, Herbs and Weeds (continued)

   

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   hang the box round your neck and as the "God's Horse" is decaying the whooping-cough will get better.
   The second is give a ferret milk to drink and before it is finished take the milk from it and drink it yourself and it will cure the whooping-cough.

   Appendicitis

   What we call appendicitis now the old people used to call colic. The cure they had for colic in olden times was, a charge of gunpowder boiled on a glass of new milk.
   They drank the gunpowder and new milk when it was boiled.

   Scour in cattle.

   A handful each of tormenting-root (wild strawberry) and bilberry tops boiled together was used very successfully for curing scouring cattle.

   Warts

   There are certain old stones to be found still in some parts of Co. Meath.
   They have a round hole on the centre top. Old people believed in sticking a pin in a wart and throwing the pin into the hole and the warts were cured.

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   P. Shekleton

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Maio, Co. Meath

   Informant

   Mr C. Shekleton

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Maio, Co. Meath