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  1. Cures and Herbs (continued)

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    9. Boggy moss is good for a burn.
    Herbs and Cures
    1. If a person had warts, to steal a piece of bacon and put it in the dung hill and as the bacon is getting rotten, the warts get rotten also.
    2. If a person had a burn they would put a skin of a roasted potato against it. Other would use flour, soda, lamp oil, and cow-manure.
    3. If a blain bursted the used to put cow-manure against it
    4. If a person had scabs they would put butter and sulphur mixed together in gravey against it.
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  2. Herbs and Cures

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    Herbs and Cures
    1. If a person had warts, to steal a piece of bacon and put it in the dung hill and as the bacon is getting rotten, the warts get rotten also.
    2. If a person had a burn they would put a skin of a roasted potato against it. Other would use flour, soda, lamp oil, and cow-manure.
    3. If a blain bursted the used to put cow-manure against it
    4. If a person had scabs they would put butter and sulphur mixed together in gravey against it.
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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
    Maggie Gibney
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Tom Disken
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kiltullagh, Co. Galway