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School: Lisín na hEilte (Buachaillí)

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0017, Page 124

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    had to make up cures at home.
    If a person was suffering from tooth ache for a long time he used to go to the bog and catch a frog and keep rubbing his teeth with it for a few minutes and the tooth ache would go.
    If a person had a sore eye and wash it with cold tea it would cure it.
    It a person cut his foot and it was not healing he cold cure it by getting an ivy leaf and holding it near the fire and by rubbing the cut with the leaf.
    If a person was walking in the field with warts in his hands or feet and to find a stone holding water to wash the warts with the water it would cure them.
    If a person never saw his father that person could cure anyone who had a sore mouth by blowing
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael Lyons
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cashel, Co. Galway