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School: Listellick, Tráighlí

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Listellick North, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Domhnall Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0442, Page 451

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    The cure for sore-throat was to heat salt and then after putting it into a stocking to put it up to the sore throat.
    A sprained leg or foot was bathed in a bucket of cold water.
    The cure for a bleeding nose was to lie flat on your back and to put a key to your back and a damp towel to your nose.
    To draw the matter out of a sore in your foot mix soap and brown sugar in hot water and apply it as a poultice to the sore. The cure for a colic was to put hot plates to your stomach and to drink whiskey burned in a saucer.
    The cure for a boil was to put a poultice of yellow meal (hot) or to melt soap and sugar together and then put it up to the boil as a poultice.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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