School: Maoilinn (B.), Áth Treasna
- Location:
- Meelin, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid de Brún
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- XML “Cures for Certain Diseases - Bleeding from the Nose”
- XML “Cures for Certain Diseases - Cuts, Bruises, Etc.”
- XML “Cures for Certain Diseases - A Head Cold”
- XML “Cures for Certain Diseases - Muscular Pains”
- XML “Cures for Certain Diseases - Sore Lip”
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- (continued from previous page)A cold door-key is put at the nape of the neck when the person lays flat on the ground. Sometimes a cold wet towel at the bridge of the nose when lying on the ground is successful.
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- A Head-Cold is successfully banished by boiling an onion in new-milk and adding a plentiful supply of pepper. Take before retiring at night.
- Muscular Pains and general fatigue and depression are overcome by eating a raw onion the first thing every morning.
- Sore-Lip is cured by rubbing a soft juicy dock-leaf (locally called 'dog-leaf') to the part and then leaving dock-leaf on it.
Patrick McAuliffe, Meenkeragh, and James Browne, Meelin.
A sore lip is also cured by rubbing it with the Cover of a [?]-that is a lip affected by 'a cold'.
