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School: An Drom (Drom Thurles) (roll number 585)

Location:
Drom, Co. Tipperary
Teachers:
Pilib Ó Ó Muireadhaigh Pádraig Ó Cléirigh
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    A cure for sore eyes is the sore eye plant Put the leaf of it up to the eye.
    A cure for a wart is to rub the knot of a straw on the wart in the sign of the cross and then bury it and when the knot rots the wart rots.
    When a person had measles a red herring roasted in the fire was given to him and he was cured.
    Corns are cured by washing the person's feet in washing-soda.
    Long ago the way the people used to cure pneumonia was to go in under an asses legs three times.
    Soda mixed with cold water is a cure for a pain in the stomach.
    A cure for a burn is to put flour on it when you get it. Another cure for a burn is to put parrafin oil to it when you get it.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Breda Ryan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Drom, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Phil Ryan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Drom, Co. Tipperary