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School: Connach, Inis Céin (roll number 10557)

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Connagh, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Máire Ní Ghealbháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0306, Page 249

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  1. Local Cures (continued)

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    Wild sage if boiled and drunk cures a backache and many other pains.
    A cure for stomach-ache. A hot cover or plate, or roasted bran put to the stomach cures a stomach-ache.
    A cure for eriseples was burned flour and ashes.
    A cure for botches is mocinrahowa.
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  2. Local Cures

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    To rub whiskey to the painful tooth.
    Roots of nettles boiled are a cure for skin diseases.
    Blow a paper bag and put a stone into the bag and throw it on the road and who ever takes it up takes the warts.
    Hot salt is a cure for a "stitch" in your side.
    A red cock split while alive
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English