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School: Cill Bheoláin (B.), Áth an Mhuilinn, Ráth Luirc

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Kilbolane, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Tadhg Ó Séaghdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0369, Page 140

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    Extra:
    It is said that a frog was used to cure a toothache & that snails were used to cure warts. To cure the whooping cough the patient drank a donkey's milk & passed under her legs a number of times. The cure a man on a white horse would give, when asked, was a cure for the chin-cough (?) A baby's sore mouth was supposed to be cured by a person who was born after his, or her, father's death. Marsh mallows & a cooked mouse were supposed to cure jaundice & a herb called Lus na móinte was used to cure goitre.
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    Extra: Oil of cloves is a very good cure for a toothache. The posthumous child (man) should go fasting to the patient on a certain number of mornings to cure the Thrush. A cobweb is used to stop bleeding & the injured part was washed in salt-water to prevent festering.
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