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1. Local Cures

   

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   A cure for the chin-cough is if you happened to find a hairy-molly and put her in a cloth and tie it around the persons neck with the ointment and accordingly as the insect decays away the chin-cough will go away too. If you get bread from the children of whose parents are of the same name it is supposed to cure the chin-cough too. If you boil black-button leafs, and drink the water it is a cure for boils. The roots of comfrey boiled or scraped and made into a paste is a cure for a sprain. Spunk leafs are good for a severe cut. If you boil water and put a corner of a towel into it and put it as hot as you could bear it on the back of your neck it will cure a head-ache.

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Kathleen Forristal

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Mrs Forristal

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Knockea, Co. Wexford

2. Local Cures

   

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   Long ago when people wanted a cure for the whooping cough they put the person in between, an asses legs three times and making the sign of the

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