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School: Clochar na Trócaire, Béal Átha na Sluagh

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Ballinasloe, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Sr. M. Oiliféar
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0029, Page 0135

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    herbs were used for poultices. It is said that a cobweb was used for stopping bleedings. It is said that a dock leaf is supposed to cure a sting of a nettle. Long ago doctors were unheard of visiting the sick in country houses as the people used their own cures and quacks.
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    Mrs. S. Kelly,
    Brackernagh,
    Balinasloe.
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    5. An old cure for a toothache was to roast a fig and place it on the tooth immediately. This would kill the pain and will burst a gumboil or abscess on the tooth. Another cure is to put a piece of tobacco down in the whole of the tooth.
    The whooping cough was cured in olden
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mr J. H. Ward
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Derrymullan, Co. Galway