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School: Clochar na Trócaire (Convent of Mercy)

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0298, Page 010

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    A bunch of mints tied round the wrist is a remedy for disorders of the Stomach.
    Nettles gathered in a church-yard and boiled down for a drink cure dropsy.
    The touch from the hand of a seventh son cures the bite of a mad dog.
    When a family has been carried off by fever the house where they died may be again inhabited with safety if a certain number of sheep are driven in there to sleep for three nights.
    Clippings of the hair and nails of a child tied up in a linen cloth and placed under the cradle will cure convulsions.
    When children are pining away the juice of twelve leaves of fox-glove to be given.
    When the seventh son is born if a worm is put into his hand and kept there until
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bríd Ní Mhathúna
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Maulicarrane, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Seán Ó Mathúna
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    58
    Address
    Maulicarrane, Co. Cork