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   Rheumatism and boils and other kinds of diseases. The cure for headache is a pinch of snuff or to dring a drop of black tea.

   

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2. Local Cures

   

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   The oldest cure for toothache is to put on your left shoe always. The cure for rash is a bit of unsalted butter and sulphur and to drink salts will cure any kind of rash. The cure for whooping cough is to drink the milk the Ferret leaves after him. Another cure for whooping cough is the first white horse that goes the way the person to go out and ask the rider the cure for whooping cough and whatever he tells the person to do that is the cure. In olden times the people used to make all kinds of poultices from

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   Topics

   1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
         1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Tommie Mc Donnell

   Gender

   Male

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   Tamhnaigh an Fheá Íochtarach, Co. Mhaigh Eo