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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0820, Page 174

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    Local Cures
    An old remedy to cure toothache was to put a live frog in the mouth five times and leave it in the mouth for two minutes each time and after ten minutes the pain would not be felt.
    Thrush is a disease of the throat from which infants very often suffer. In olden days goose grease was rubbed gently to the child's throat.
    Thrush is a disease of the tongue, gums lips and palate.
    In olden days to cure a stye in the eye people used to point a thorn of a gooseberry bush to the stye of a friend's eye and it would be cured completely after a few days.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sadie Wills
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    The Walk, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Mr William Wills
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    65
    Address
    The Walk, Co. Offaly