School: Mainistir na Féile (B.) (roll number 16264)

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   and butter mixed and it is supposed to cure it.
   The first many you see riding on a white horse ask him what would cure chin-cough, and whatever he says is supposed to cure it. For water in the brain, get leaves or needles of the pine tree and boil and pound them and put them to the back of the neck. For rash on children nettle porridge is used. Saffron tea was used for measles and it is said that it is cured.

   

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2. Local Cures

   

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   For a toothache:- put some mustard into hot water and make a paste of it, and put it on the wrist opposite to the side of you mouth in which you have the pain, and it is supposed to cure it. For chincough:- ask the owner of a white horse or pony, and do what he tells you. For warts:- rub castor oil to the wart once every day. For a toothache: rube oil of cloves to the sore gum or to dip a bid of wadding in iodine, and rub

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Thomas Collins

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick

   Informant

   Mrs D. Collins

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   50

   Address

   Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick