School: Béal Átha 'n Fheadha (B.)

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Ballina, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
D. P. Ó Cearbhaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0146, Page 529

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    60. Tripe is also a cure for a bad stomach.
    61. A cure for a toothache put a drop of parafinoil in it and the pain will go.
    62. For the headache rub vinegar to your forehead
    63. For a toothache put salt into the tooth.
    64. There is a little bush growing in the bogs called furze and there is a cure in it for a horse that would have diabetous. You bring it in and chop it and put it through his food.
    65. There is also a cure in a sunburned potato for diabetous. For a horse you cut it up and put it through his food.
    66. Boil a chicken's guizard for a few hours in milk and then drink it. Its a cure for a bad stomach.
    67. There is a cure in water-cress for the evil. Eat it every morning before breakfast.
    68. There is a cure in garlic for bronchite's. If they taste it occasionlly it helps them to breath freely.
    69. A cure for a gumboil is to roast a fig on a coal and put it to the gumboil for to burst it.
    70. A cure for sore feet is to mix unsalted butter and the clippings of horse's hooves and rub it to your feet.
    71. A cure for sore eye's is unsalted butter and rub
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English