School: Don

Location:
Cartron More, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Pádhraic Ó Tiomáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0240, Page 156

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0240, Page 156

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  1. Boil the roots of garlic for two hours on milk or water and drink a spoonful or two fasting.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. Ear ache.
    Take an onion and roast it and squeeze the juice on to a bit of wool or drop a little of it into the ear. Put in the wool with the onion juice. The pain will be instantly relieved.
    Toothache.
    Boil the first egg laid by a black pullet and eat it. The pain goes.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. earache (~35)
    Language
    English