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School: An Tulach Mór (roll number 11047)

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Tullamore, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Gearóid Mac Piarais
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    57. Young children get the cradle cap and the best cure for it is to wash it with soap and water three times a day.
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    58. A good cure for an eye that is blood-shot is to wash it three times a day in cold tea and then it goes away.
    59. A very good cure for cough is to boil milk and onions and to mix pepper through them and to drink them, and then it goes away.
    60. A cure for scruff that comes in a child's head is to rub honey to it and then it goes away.
    61. Another cure for a pain in the tooth is to take a smoke of a pipe and then it goes away.
    62. A cure for a sting from a bee is to rub the juice of
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eibhlís Ní Chorradáin
    Gender
    Female