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1. Local Cures (continued)

   

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   in hot water and she gave it to him to drink. She threw the dandelion leaves out in the yard and a delicate turkey who was there ate them. Some months after this they killed the turkey and there was a new skin round her heart as the result of eating the dandelion. A spider's web (cobweb) was used for a cut on a person's hand. When the web was put up to the hand, the blood immediately stopped flowing. Garlic put into the soles of shoes was a cure for rheumatism. When a person had a sty in his eye, a woman's ring turned three times round it, would cure it

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2. Local Cures

   

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   To cure ringworm mixed herbs are boiled and afterwards rubbed on to the ringworm. A sty is cured by rubbing a gold ring or 3 gooseberry thorns to the eye. As a cure for whooping-cough milk should be given to a ferret and what he leaves should be given to the patient. An ivy leaf which has been heated at the fire is the cure for

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