School: Listellick, Tráighlí

Location:: Lios Teilice Thuaidh, Co. Chiarraí
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0442, Page 465

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A cure for neuralgia and tooth-ache was to get a plaster or poultice of mustard and then apply it to both elbows. To draw a boil they used to apply a poultice of hot white-bread (baker's bread) - it was first steeped in very hot water - to the boil. A cure for chilblains was to rub them with paraffin oil before they broke out. Another cure for chilblains is to rub them with salt. A cure for internal worms, was to put three drops of turpentine out of a fountain pen into a lump of sugar and to take it every morning fasting.
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Local Cures

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The cure for a cough was to get Carraghín [?] moss and boil it and after boiling it for about three hours to squeeze a lemon into it and then drink the mixture.

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