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School: Scartaglen (roll number 8184)

Location:
Scartaglin, Co. Kerry
Teachers:
D. Ó Dubháin E. Ó Murchú
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    Local Cures
    The best cure I know for a toothache is to rub root to it.
    A cure for whooping cough is to put pepper in hot milk and drink it. There is a herb growing in places and if you eat it it would cure you.
    Sore eyes.
    If you washed your eyes with milk and water. To cure boils, if you put a potato into the fire and roasted it, it would break a boil. To bathe them in hot water. If you filled a bottle with boiled water. Then empty out the water and put the bottle up to the boil.
    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
    Nora Tangney
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Patrick Tangney
    Gender
    Male