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    My grandmother has a cure for the jaundice.
    Mrs. Brown of Violethill has the cure for a sprain.
    Mr. Armstrong of Drum had a cure for the bleeding of the nose.
    Mr. Madill of Drumgaze has the cure for a sprain.
    Miss Mahood of Canninsgstown Cootehill has the cure for cancer.
    Mr. Murdock of Magherysharey has the cure for the whooping cough. It is roasted grass-mouse and you have to swallow it in its whole.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Evelyn Stewart
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tonagimsy, Co. Monaghan

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    Jack Mahood of Rakenny has a cure for external cancer.
    An old cure for warts. Steal a piece of bacon and rub it on the warts nine times and hide the bacon under a stone in the garden and if the bacon has disappeared when you go back
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