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labouring under the disease are taken to the cave, held up under one of 
the paps, so as to allow the water from it to fall into the mouth. Some- 
times the pap is taken into the mouth and sucked. 
145. Dalry.—The patient is put into the hopper of a mill. This was 
done to my informant’s father. 
Erysipelas, or ‘ Rose.’ 
146. Zwngland.—Tow sprinkled with flour is laid over the affected 
art. 
: 147. Kirkmaiden.—Dry flour is sprinkled over the spot affected, which 
is then covered with hemp. 
148. Kirkmaiden.—Flour warmed and dusted over wormwood is laid 
over the diseased part. 
Warts. 
149. Dalry—The juice of the dandelion rubbed on warts dispels 
them. 
150. Kirkmaiden.—Rub the wart with the red-hot stalk of a new 
clay tobacco-pipe. My informant has seen this done. 
151. Kells——Rub the wart with a black snail. My informant has 
done this. 
152. Kirkmaiden.—Rub the wart with a black snail (Arion niger), 
and then hang the snail on a thorn-bush. As the snail wastes, the wart 
wastes till it is gone. 
153. Kirkmaiden.—Rub the wart with the hot blood as it flows from 
a pig when it is being killed. My informant has seen this done, 
154. Kells.—My informant’s foot was covered with warts. A pig 
was being killed. He took off his boot and stocking, and held the foot 
under the blood as it flowed from the animal. Without wiping off the 
blood, he put on the stocking and boot. The warts disappeared in a short 
time. 
155. Dalry.—Rub the wart with rain-water from a natural hollow in 
a rock or big stone. 
156. Portlogan—Rub the wart with a halfpenny, tie the halfpenny 
in a piece of paper, and Jay it on a public road. The one that picks it up 
gets the wart. 
157. Kirkmaiden.—My informant saw lately a young woman whose 
hands were disfigured with warts rub them with a copper coin. It was 
cast away. The warts in due time vanished. 
158. Kirkmaiden.—Cut a potato into nine pieces, rub each wart 
with each of the nine pieces, then tie up the pieces in a bit of paper and 
bury the parcel. As the pieces waste the warts waste. My informant 
has done this. 
Colic. 
159. Kirkmaiden.—A cure is to sit with ‘bare bottom’ over a pot of 
warm water. 
160. Kirkmaiden.—In a child the cure was effected by turning it 
_ three times heels over head. 
Cholera. 
161. Mochrum.—When cholera visited the country in 1832, pieces of 
raw beef were fixed to long poles, and the poles were erected on Mill Hill, 
near Port William, to catch the disease. 
1896. SS 
