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School: Díseart, Droichead Átha (roll number 1434)

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Dysart, Co. Louth
Teacher:
M. Ní Ailpín
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  1. Local Cures

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    Thrush
    The cure for the thrush is to boil herbs with water and drink it.
    Whooping Cough
    Get a ribbon from a Godfather and wear it round your neck.
    Measles
    Hot Punch.
    Mumps
    Go in and out three times to a pigsty and say a Hail Mary.
    Burns
    Olive Oil
    Scalds
    Carron Oil and Bread Soda.
    Stys
    Nine gooseberry "docks". A boy to a girl and a girl to a boy, point eight to the sty and throw the other across your right shoulder.
    Dirty Mouth
    A Child that never saw its father has a cure for a dirty mouth.
    Toothache
    Oil of Cloves and Epsom salts, and fill your mouth full of water, and stand beside the fire till it boils, these are cures for the toothache.
    Corns
    Corn plaster or pare them.
    Wildfire
    Clay from under a lone bush.
    Chilblains
    The cure for chilbains is to rub them with paraffin oil and castor oil.
    Warts
    The cure for warts is to dip them in ink.
    Stings
    Get a capóg and say
    Capóg Capóg, in and out.
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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
    Maisie O' Brien
    Gender
    Female