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School: Skerries, Athy (roll number 10975)

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Skerries North, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
E. Tansey
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    The cure for corns is to get a thin piece of fat bacon and put it to the corn for a day and do this for a few days until the corn goes away. This is a good cure because I seen my father doing it.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. corns (~27)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nancy Gilligan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Rathconnell, Co. Kildare