School: Listellick, Tráighlí
- Location:
- Lios Teilice Thuaidh, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0442, Page 465
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- (continued from previous page)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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- Informant
- Mrs Enright
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Lios an Iarla Thiar, Co. Chiarraí
