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    Long ago the people could not afford to get a doctor if they were ill, and they used herbs to cure their diseases.
    The green scum which grows on a bog-hole is a cure for a severe head-ache. The cure for a stye was to get a branch of a gooseberry bush with nine thorns on it, rub it to your eye for nine mornings, and throw a thorn away each morning. At the end of this time the stye will be better.
    A poultice of chicken - weed is a cure for a sprain.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Una Connolly
    Gender
    Female

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    2. To cure a wart rub a sliced potato to it and then bury the potato deep down in the ground, when the potato rots the warts will go away.
    The seventh girl of a family has the
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