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SOME SHROPSHIRE CURES Part Three

Owdo me owd butties? I hope that you inna ailing and i canna gurantee that these ‘ull work so i’d better say dunna try these at whum.

COUGHS

Put a piece of chalk in each shoe, in a day or two the cough will be cured.

HYSTERICS

Beat the bare back with nettles

GENERAL DEBILLITY

Drink milk that a ferret has drank frum. Ferrets are very tenacious for life and transfers tenacity of life by sympathetic means.

CUTS

Spreading plenty of manure on the wound was a common cure but tetanus was a risk.

EARACHE

A poultice of winter pine or house leek.

NETTLE STINGS

Rub with a dock leaf, they usually grow alongside each other and the sap has an almus cooling affect, but remember to repeat

“Nettle, nettle come out, dock, dock go in.”

CHILBLAINS

Sheep droppin’s and lard or beat ’em with holly.

well that’s enough chunnerin’ frum me fer one day, take care and stay safe, and dunna forget that prevention is alus better than the cure – shroppie.