School: Lisín na hEilte (Buachaillí)
- Location:
- Lisheennaheltia, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádraic Ó Séadhacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0017, Page 123
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- (continued from previous page)chin cough anything he will say will cure it.
To put salt under the tongue stops bleeding from the nose.
An onion made small and the centre if it put in the ear stops the pain.
A cure for hiccough is to stretch out your hand feel your pulse and think of where you saw the last sacrament administered.
To put a grey stone in the fire and then put it in to cold water and then to wash wounded skin it would with the water it would cure it
If a person cannot sleep at night to get up and eat an onion it would help him to sleep
- Long ago before there were any Medical Halls in Ireland the people(continues on next page)
