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School: St. Anne's (B.)

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Bailieborough, Co. Cavan
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P. Mac an t Saoir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1012, Page 309

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    toothache cured his malady in this way:- he picked up one of the skulls and extracted a molar from the jaws. In some cases it was regarded as sufficient to pluck out the molar with the fingers, but somepeople held that the sufferer would have to bite it out with his own teeth.
    The sufferer then put the molar in his mouth and sucked it in the same manner as one would suck a sweet. Somepoeple held that the molar would have to be replaced in the jaws of the skull, but
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    P. J. Gaynor
    Occupation
    Journalist
    Address
    Bailieborough, Co. Cavan