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School: St Mary's, Bridge-End

Location:
Bridge End, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Mhic Uidhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1109, Page 169

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    Ailments Cures
    whooping cough go under a donkey three times or get bread from a woman the same name as her husband.
    measles stew nettles and drink juice or garlic or get faiógar and eat nine of them for nine mornings.
    for your kidney dandelions
    sore throat warm buttermilk and sugar.
    toothache take a smoke of a pipe.
    sore ears pour warm castor oil into them
    corns walk through a bog for a day
    stung by a wasp rub blue on it.
    stung by a nettle rub a "dockins" on it and say "dockin in and nettle out"
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máighreadh Ní Éigeartaigh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Skeoge, Co. Donegal