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1. Local Cures - Toothache

   

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   1. Sniff washing soda with nose

   

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2. Local Cures - Toothache

   

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   2. Light a piece of brown paper blow out sniff smoke with nose (Mrs. Hollingsworth bellridge)

   

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3. Local Cures - Toothache

   

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   3. Put a potato in half rub the half on cheek hide it under stone (Mrs Bracken bellridge heard in Co. Down)

   

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4. Local Cures - Toothache

   

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   4. Essence of cloves put in the tooth (Mrs. Anderson bastletown)

   

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5. Local Cures - Toothache

   

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   5. Put iodine on the tooth (ditto)

   

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6. Local Cures - Toothache

   

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   6. Get a piece of tobacco and put it in the hole of the tooth (Mrs Cochrane bellridge heard in Co. Cavan)

   

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7. Local Cures - Toothache

   

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   7. Mix salt and mustard together and put it on the tooth (Mrs Hollingsworth bellridge heard in Co Wicklow)

   

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8. Local Cures - Toothache

   

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   8. Put a drop of jeyes fluid in the tooth (Mr Doyle bellridge) 9. Hold whiskey in your mouth (Mrs Wing bellridge)

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   Topics

   1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
         1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)
            1. leigheasanna ar ghalair ar dhaoine
               1. tinneas fiacaile (~180)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs Smyth

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Cill Droichid, Co. Chill Dara

9. Local Cures - Toothache

   

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   10. To hold your jaw to the fire (Mrs Smyth bellridge heard in Co. Wicklow from her mother 30 years of age.)
   11. Get a piece of brown paper and put pepper on it and put into the tooth (Mr Cochrane)
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