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    Local Cures
    25-November 11938
    Slamhnan
    When you get a slamnan on your eye the cure is to go some garden on Monday Thursday and Monday and get ten goose-berry thorns and point nine of them to your eye and throw the tenth into the fire
    Another cure is to wash your eye with strong cold tea
    Whooping Cough
    The cure for the Whooping Cough is to drink donkey's milk or to drink ferret's
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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)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Ellie Bruen
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Buckill, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    John Bruen
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Buckill, Co. Roscommon