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School: Clonard (roll number 16067)

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Clonard, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Fithcheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0694, Page 154

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  1. Local Cures (continued)

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    To cure a vomiting in the stomach is to go to St. Finians well and take a drink of water out of it
    To put a poultice of loaf bread and water as hot as you can bear it to wherever you have the thorn, and the thorn will be gone before the next morning.
    The cure of a sore throat is to get a lemon and sick the juice out of it without any sugar
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  2. Local Cures

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    The cure for a soar throat is boiled butter milk and sugar
    The cure for a swollen throat is if you get a leaf of gladdum and tie it around your neck
    Bread soda and butter milk is the cure fora heart burn
    If you get a snail and if there is warts on the back of your hand if you rub a black snail to them he will cure them.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bill Hughes
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilwarden, Co. Meath