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    in the water of a spring well, not a drop of the mixture should spill, and the vessel containing it should not be put on the ground till the patient drank all the mixture.
    They believed that carrying a hare's foot about you was a cure for the Colic; or standing on one's head for a quarter of an hour.
    Three drops of sow's milk was recommended for epilepsy.
    Bathing on Good Friday cured the itch, and a cure for headache was to wear the tooth of a corpse.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Brigid Fanning
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Raheen, Co. Wexford
    Informant
    John Mc Gee
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    45
    Address
    Raheen, Co. Wexford