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School: Tuairín Chathail (C.) (roll number 11181)

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Tooreencahill, Co. Kerry
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Síghle Ní Shíothcháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0453, Page 199

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    A local cure for thrush was to leave the gander inside at night so that he would be fasting, and in the morning to put his bill into the mouth of the patient suffering from thrush, and it would cure it.
    The leavings of ferrets was a cure for chincough. For warts, it was said if a raw potato was rubbed to the wart every morning for nine mornings when the person would be fasting that it would cure them. When a person would have a toothache, they used grind a live frog's leg when the toothache would then disappear.
    Cures for all diseases in
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sheila Sheehan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tooreencahill, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Denis Buckley
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    68
    Address
    Reaboy, Co. Kerry