School: Dillonsbridge (roll number 8501)

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1. Local Cures (continued)

   

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   Local Cures
   Sprain
   9. A cure for a burn: hold it to the fire
   10. A cure for a bleeding nose: put a green stone at the back of your neck
   11. A cure for scurvy: put Brooklime and waterevess to it
   12. A cure for a black eye: put a poultice of rotten apple to it

   

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2. Local Cures

   

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   Local Cures
   Cure for a wart: get an old potato and cut it in two. Mark a cross on each half of it and put salt on the cross. Then say three Hail Marys while rubbing both halves of the potato on the wart. Throw away the potato. As it is rotting the wart is also going away. Cure for chilblains Rub turpentine on them. Cure for the thrush: Get a piece of baked bread from a married couple, the wives maiden name being the same as

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   Topics

   1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
         1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Margaret Smyth

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Baile Caisleáin na Teamhrach, Co. na Mí

   Informant

   Nicholas Sheridan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Baile Caisleáin na Teamhrach, Co. na Mí