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School: Séipéal na Carraige (roll number 5478)

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Rockchapel, Co. Cork
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Donncha Ó Géibheannaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0351, Page 154

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    Pain in the ear.
    Put a little sweet oil on a little cotton wool and put it in the ear.
    The Sorrel leaf
    Roast the sorrel leaf on a coal of fire and put it to the cut or sore to heal it.
    To stop bleeding.
    (1) Burn a piece of linen and put it to the cut, the bleeding will stop.
    (2) Put a cob-web to the cut.
    A tooth-ache.
    Mix salt and sooth and put it in the hold of the tooth.
    Coughs.
    Eat garlic.
    Warts.
    Put a stone for each wart you have into a paper bag, make it into a parcel and leave on the road, whoever picks it up will take the warts from you.
    Consumption.
    Pull the dandelion with its roots, boil it in water, strain and drink the water.
    Biles.
    To break a bile, melt alum in water and rub to it.
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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
    John Mc Auliffe
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Robert Mc Auliffe
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Knockahorrea East, Co. Cork