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School: An Teampoll Uachtair (roll number 8747)

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Upperchurch, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Domhnall Ua Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0543, Page 228

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    Upperchurch Cures
    A cure for a toothache is to put a frog in your mouth. Some say this is sufficient. Others recommend putting the frog in the mouth three times and making the sign of the Cross, or leave frog three nights in water, and rub to teeth. Another Cure is for the sufferer to pull a tooth out of a dead man's skull with his own teeth. And again others would advise simply making the sign of the Cross with a deceased person's tooth extracted from a full toothed skull.
    Thrush can be cured by rubbing goose grease to affected parts or rub dry salt to them.
    Tipperary people make the sign of the Cross with an extracted or fallen out tooth, and throw it away back over their heads to ward off further teeth trouble.
    Sore eyes are cured by rubbing them
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Quinlan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carew, Co. Tipperary
    Collector
    Mary Shanrahan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Upperchurch, Co. Tipperary
    Collector
    Michael Burke
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Shevry, Co. Tipperary
    Collector
    Patrick Kinane
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Moher, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Denis Shanrahan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Upperchurch, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Michael Burke
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Address
    Shevry, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Mrs John Quinlan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    55
    Address
    Carew, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Terence Kinane
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Moher, Co. Tipperary