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School: Attymass B.

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Áth Tí an Mheasaigh, Co. Mhaigh Eo
Teacher:
P. Ó Flannghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0127, Page 332

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    Toothache:- If a toothache is bad this is an old cure. When a man would be dead to rub his finger in your mouth and you would never have a toothache again. Another cure was to put a stone down with a pot of potatoes and when the potatoes would be boiled to rub the stone three times on your teeth and you would never have a toothache again. Another cure was to put a bit of tobacco into your tooth and if there was no hole in it to eat a bit of tobacco and to throw it out of your mouth again. Another cure is to get the moss off a stone and rub it on the tooth three times and it would cure it. To smoke brown paper and to put the smoke to the tooth, or to
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
        1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Smyth
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Mrs Smyth
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    40
    Address
    Mullach Thamhnaí, Co. Mhaigh Eo