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School: An Clochar, Cill Ruis

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Kilrush, Co. Clare
Teacher:
An tSr. Pól
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0629, Page 529

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  1. Cures

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    The people of to-day learned a great remedy from the old people for curing whooping cough sometimes wrongly called chin-cough. If he is put under a female donkey he would not get it bad.
    The best cure for toothache is a (cure) smoke as the old people say. People having warts believe that if they find water on a stone without looking for it and make the Sign of the Cross three mornings in succession the warts will disappear.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Shannon
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Moyne, Co. Clare

  2. Local Cures

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    If a person had a headache the woman of the house would put brow paper and whiskey up to the person's head and it would cure the headache.
    Dandelion was used for people who had bad hearts.
    There was once a man who was suffering from bronchitis. His wife boiled dandelion
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