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1. Local Cures (continued)

   

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   for a few days and the ringworm will go.

   17. Another cure, Get a marriage ring and put it around the ring-worm three times in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy-Ghost, on Monday and Thursday and it will go.

   18. Toothache

   Put a small grain of mustard into the hole of the tooth and that will cure it.

   19. Earache

   Get blacks sheeps wool and dip it in sweet oil and put it in the ear and it will cure it. Another cure. Get an onion and roast it and cut it in two and leave it to your ear and put a bandage around it. Another cure. Put boiling water in a jug and put a piece of flannel over it and put your ear to it and steam the ear

   Cure for burn

   Equal part of lime-water and linseed oil and it is then called barron oil.

   Got from, Mrs. Kenny Hillswood.
   Asked by, Mary Joe Kenny Hillswood.
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   To Cure a Wart

   Get a black snail and put him on the wart and then put him on a white thorn bush and he will grow into a wart in

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Willie Mullen

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Killaan, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Mrs Mullen

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Killaan, Co. Galway