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School: An Clochar, Roscrea

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Roscrea, Co. Tipperary
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An Mháthair M. Ní Thuathaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0549, Page 031

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    Long ago the old people used grease off the axle of a common car on the ring-worm to cure it.
    For a toothache they smoked a pipe to help to draw the water from the tooth and they used to stop the pain.
    For a wart they used to make the sign of the cross on the wart three times with a straw and then it was buried, and when the straw would rot the wart would be cured.
    They used bread soda for a cure for a burn.
    For whooping cough they gave a loaf of bread
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peggy Saunders
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs J. Brophy
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    c. 50