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   with yellow blossoms on them, another where he got primrose leaves, and in another white roots. He boiled these three times and put the Juice behind the fire.
   2. The cure for chilblains was to put salt in hot water and wash your feet in it.
   3. A cure for whooping cough was to drink milk the ferret left.
   4. Boiled nettles was the cure for skin rash an blood heat.
   5. Briar leaves were used as the cure for a heart-burn.
   6. Onion and garlick were used for poultices for bruises.
   7. The cure for rheumatism was to drink black tea.
   8. Roasted salt and tie round your neck in a stocking was the cure for a sore throat.
   9. A cure for a pain in the stomach was to take hot water and soda.
   10. A cure for sun-burned people was cream.
   11. A cure for deafness was to rub with goose's seam
   12. A cure for corns was to rub with bacon.
   13. A cure for a tala in the wrist was to wear an eel skin.
   14. A cure for aired hands was to wash in warm water, and rub with vaseline.
   15. The cure of wildfire was to rub with a gold ring three times making the sign of the cross each time.
   16. The cure for a pain in the rm was to rub with paraffin oil.
   17. Brookline cured kidney trouble and impure-blood.

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Kathleen Reilly

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Derryvony, Co. Cavan

   Informant

   Mrs Owen Reilly

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Derryvony, Co. Cavan