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School: Balrath (roll number 9770)

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Balrath, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
Bean Uí Oirghiall
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0738, Page 004

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    This cure was told by George Dermody Wattstown Mullingar
    He often visits our house and is a great story teller.
    If a person complained of sickness and pain in the stomach they used to say the breast bone or spool of the breast was gone down.
    The quack doctor got a penny and put it on the breast. Then he got a lighted candle and put it on the penny and
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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
    Millie Smyth
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Balrath, Co. Westmeath
    Informant
    George Dermody
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Wattstown, Co. Westmeath