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    (2) How to cure a toothache was to burn tobaccco on a griddle and put in your tooth then.
    (3) There was another cure which priests used give which was to promise to give up doing certain things on Sunday, such as baking bread or for a man not to shave on a Sunday.
    (4) The third cure was to put burned alum in your tooth; it would run all the water out of the tooth.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. toothache (~180)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rose Bracken
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    14
    Address
    Bracklin Little, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Mary Bracken
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    48
    Address
    Bracklin Little, Co. Offaly

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    (6) a cure for a toothache is to say three Our Fathers and three Hail Mary's at the rising of the Host at Mass
    (7) Red pepper pods put in water and then a mouthful of it take will cure a toothache
    (8) If a person pulls a tooth out of a dead person's mouth with their teeth they will never have a toothache
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