School: Scoil na mBráthar Sligeach (Sráid na Céibhe) (roll number 16585)
- Location:
- Sráid na Cé, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: An Br. Ó Cearbhaill
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- XML “Local Cures - Colds”
- XML “Local Cures - Corns”
- XML “Local Cures - Cough”
- XML “Local Cures - Cuts”
- XML “Local Cures - Dog's Bite”
- XML “Local Cures - Earache”
- XML “Local Cures - Foul Mouth”
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- (continued from previous page)(b) Wild sage & garlic boiled is good for a bad cold.
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- Collector
- J. Sweeney
- A piece of turnip and brown sugar; or a cupfull of sugar mixed with butter.
- (a) Soap and sugar poultice
(b) A thin slice of potato.
(c) Get a dog to lick it. For a sore finger, hold it in boiling water in which potatoes were boiled.
(d) A grated potato poultice - (a) Three hairs taken from the dog which bit and and rubbed on the wound.
(c) There is a cure in the hair of the dog which bit. - Hold the ear over a basin of hot water.
- The cure for foul-mouth is that anyone who has never seen his father should blow his breath on the person afflicted and he will be cured.