School: Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór (roll number 1685)
- Location:
- Knocknagree, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Muimhneacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0357, Page 262
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- (continued from previous page)of a stone containing water.
Toothache: Put a piece of tobacco into the tooth.
Pepper, salt and soot mixed together were used and saltpetre was also used.
A frog's leg was put under it as a cure.
Fill the mouth with parrafin oil and leave it boil for some time.
A pinch of salt put up the nose was supposed to cure a toothache.
Stick a dead man's finger into the mouth
Put a piece of perk in the hole of the tooth.
Put a piece from of burned limestone into the tooth or also a piece of blue-stone.
Chincough: The leavings of milk being drunk by a ferret and given to the infected person to drink.
Donkey's milk given to the person and when this was drunk the person was put under and over the donkey.
The fumes of burned tar inhaled(continues on next page)
