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   Another cure for the whooping cought is to go to a house for a penny worth of milk and ask some break. When you come home break bread and put the bread and milk in a saucer. Leave the saucer on top of a ditch and what ever eats the bread takes away the whooping cough. Margaret Timlin Gort Castlebar 1-6-1938 I got this information from my mother, Annie Timlin

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Margaret Timlin

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Gort, Co. Mayo

   Informant

   Annie Timlin

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Gort, Co. Mayo

2. Cures

   

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   This is what the people do when they have headache. They tie a band round their heads and that might take the pain away. But the old people say it is better to bear the pain than to tie a band around it.

   Pepper or ginger or poteen is also a good cure for headache. When you have a sore or a cut which is corrupted white bread is good for bringing the corruption out of it.

   An herb called the lus mor which has red thimbles growing on it is good for drawing sores. There is another little small leaf called the seamsog it is very good for healing a sore

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