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    1. Cure for a toothache.
    Pull a tooth out of a dead skull with your teeth and the toothache will go away.
    2. Cure for thrush.
    Drink the milk that a ferret would leave and the thrush will go away.
    3. Cure for worms.
    If there is a worm put in the hand of the seventh son of a family when he is born and let die in it he has the cure of worms ever afterwards.
    4. Cure for a burn
    If a man licks a mancreeper his lick will cure a burn ever afterwards.
    5. Cure for a mote in the eye.
    Put tealeaves to the eye and put a cloth around it and this will cure it.
    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
    Annie Burns
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Derryhoo, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Mrs Burns
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Derryhoo, Co. Cavan