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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0816, Page 103

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    Toothache
    (1) Fill your mouth with water and stand with your back at the fire until the water gets warm.
    Measles
    (1) Boil and drink a white asses milk
    Rheumatism
    (1) Get lamp oil and boil it and into it put a spoonful of salt. Then rub it on the pains.
    Ring worm
    (1) The seventh son can cure a ring-worm, by getting a worm and putting it on his hand. It immediately dies. Then he gets the worm and rubs it on the ring-worm and then buries it As fast as the worm decays the ringworm wears away.
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    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
    Rosie Coughlan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Noggusboy, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Joseph Coughlan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    63
    Address
    Noggusboy, Co. Offaly