School: Traceystown (roll number 12156)
- Location:
- Baile Uí Threasaigh Thiar, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: Proínséas Bean Uí Phearáil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0883, Page 133
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- (continued from previous page)thin stocking and apply to head or back of neck until the pain disappears. Common salt if placed on the tongue and followed by a drink of water is said to be a cure for a sick headache.A gargle of salt + water will cleanse a coated tongue, taken like snuff, salt will relieve a cold.
It also whitens the teeth, hardens the gums, and stops the bleeding after teeth have been extracted.
A salt + water solution used in washing a deep cut is said to prevent infection.Toothache :
An old treatment for toothache was to slightly cut the gum around the tooth with an iron nail until it bleeds so that some of the blood remains on the nail, then drive the nail into a wooden beam up to the head, and it is said you will never get(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen O' Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Sliabh Bhuí, Co. Loch Garman
- Informant
- Mrs O' Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Sliabh Bhuí, Co. Loch Garman
