to his eye three days in succession, and would throw the tenth one away. This done, the eye is supposed to be cured.
Anything a person gets without asking for it is supposed to be a cure for the hay-cup. (hiccough)
A person would be cured of the whooping cough if he would drink out of a trout's mouth.
Foul mouth may be cured by chewing the stem of a piece of woodbine in your mouth.
Garlic, boiled on sweet milk, is a cure for a cold.
Mountain, sage, liquarice stick, sugar of candy and alcohol boiled together is a cure for a cold on the chest.
If you give a ferret milk to drink, the amount he leaves after him is a cure for the whooping-cough.
A herb grows along the ditches and some times on the walls of old houses. If this is