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School: Meelick (B.)

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Meelick, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Eoghan Ó Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0598, Page 098

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0598, Page 098

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  1. XML School: Meelick (B.)
  2. XML Page 098
  3. XML “Leigheasanna - Craosghalar”
  4. XML “Leigheasanna - Wildfire”
  5. XML “Breastbone Down”

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  2. Leigheasanna - Wildfire

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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. erysipelas (~99)
    Language
    English

  3. Breastbone Down

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    Cure - Place penny (preferably a bucker's penny - a very large one - of which there were odd ones) on flesh just below extremity of breastbone. On penny put 3 pieces of the very small candles in used long ago. Light them & place tumbler over them lighting. After a time the candles would be extinguished. The force necessary to pull off the tumbler wd. raise the bone. This was done on 3 successive
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