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   and leave it there for a few days the bunion will be cured.

   This is a cure for corns which are other things that come on the feet. If you get a turnip, and put salt on it, and leave it aside for a few days until the salt is well melted. Then put some of this juice on the corn everyday until the corn becomes cured.

   

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2. Old Cures

   

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   The dandelion is a cure for TB. If you get the juice of a dandelion, of course you would want to get the juice of more than one. But to get it of a good number, and drink it a good many times, the disease may dissappear. There is a herb which grows in the bog, it is called the ''Bog Lily''. It is a cure for Rheumatism, and all

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Teresa Nealon

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Cloonlurg, Co. Sligo