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School: Baile Dháithí, Dunlavin

Location:
Baile Dháith, Co. Chill Mhantáin
Teacher:
Róisín Bhreathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0915, Page 110

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    For the whooping-cough take the patient and put him under an ass's belly nine times.
    Garlic is good for a heavy cold. Boil Garlic with butter till boiled soft. Then the patient drinks the juice and eats the garlic and in a day or two he will be all right again.
    The cure my mother heard best for "neuralgia" is to make a mustard plaster and put it in a rag and put it on the point of your left elbow for the space of five minutes or so, till it begins "to smarten" you. Then take it off.
    Nettles are good when
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
        1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tony Rogers
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Dún Ard, Co. Chill Mhantáin
    Informant
    Jane Rogers
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    c. 46
    Address
    Dún Ard, Co. Chill Mhantáin