School: An Tulach Mór (roll number 11047)
- Location:
- An Tulaigh Mhóir, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Gearóid Mac Piarais
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14. A good cure for ring worms is, to write your name with ink round them and they get better then.
15. Long ago the people's cure for anything cut was to put a cobweb into it.
16. Cows often get a worm in their tail, the cure for it is to mix soot and garlic, and pound them together and to put them into a cloth, and put them up to the cow's tail, and then the worm dies.
17. Asses often get a sore back, the cure for it is to break blue-stone and to mix washing-soda with it, and to put it up to the sore and then it gets better.
18. A cure for bleeding from the nose is to place a key on the vein on your back, and then the bleeding stops.
19. Another cure for bleeding from the nose is to put a piece of blotting paper under your tongue; people who are afraid of bleeding from(continues on next page)
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