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School: Páirc na nDriseóg (roll number 14294)

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Brierfield, Co. Galway
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Séamus Ó Conaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0083, Page 082

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    you should go to a person that never saw their father and he will breathe in your mouth and it will be cured.
    Get an ash stick, peel the rough skin off it and scrape the glaccy stuff. Boil it in milk and use every morning for nine mornings. It will take worms out of a person.
    There is a man in Corrifin who is able to cure yellow jaundice. His name is Daly. He cures it with herbs and stout.
    Szaiban is a cure for a cold. Boil buttermilk and oatenmeal and give it hot to the person.
    If you get a burn of a nettle get a dock leave, squeeze the juice out of the stem and rub it on the burned place.
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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
    May Loughlin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cooloorta, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Mrs Margaret Fahy
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    75