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   toothache, got a pinch of blessed salt and put it into your tooth. There is an old cure for sore throat, get a pinch of salt and a cup of water and gargle your throat with it.
   Whittles are cured in this way, when a potatoes are boiling, dip your finger into the water. You can cure warts, peal a potato and cut it in halves and rub it on the warts and then bury the potato in the ground and as the potato decays, the warts will decay.
   If you have a cut on your finger get a ribleaf and cut it up small and put it on the cut and it wil lcure it.

   

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2. Herbs and Cures

   

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   To cure ckoke on a chicken put a horse-hair down her neck and the worm crawls up on the hair. When they had a sore they used to put a poultice to it of bread and when it is bursted put another poultice of soap and sugar to it.

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   William Treacy

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Leegane, Co. Wexford