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School: Curraghmore (roll number 12714)

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0737, Page 104

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    The cure of a burn is to lick a maneater and then lick the burn.
    The cure of T.B. is to drink goats milk.
    The cure of worms is to put some oaten meal on your stomach, and as much of the oat-meal as goes away there are as many worms in you. What ever is left make an oatencake of it and eat it. It is said the worm will then die.
    The seventh son has the cure of the running womr and also of boil.
    If you lick a maneater you will have the cure of a burn.
    The seventh son can cure a toothache.
    The root of the dandelion mixed with unsalted butter is the cure for ring worm.
    The cure of the warts is to rub a snail three times to it making the
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Seamus Buckley
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Wooddown, Co. Westmeath
    Informant
    James Buckley
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    40
    Address
    Wooddown, Co. Westmeath