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School: Doire an Bháis (roll number 13152)

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Derrycoosh, Co. Mayo
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Énrí Ó Húbáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0089, Page 396

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    hot water and drink it. Take juice from caragreen [?] and drink it. Get a dandelion and boil it with sugar. When it is a while boiling lift it and drink the juice of it and the cough will go.
    Cold.
    When you have a cold scauld butter-milk and put butter into it and drink it and it will go
    Take a drink of hot milk and pepper.
    Sty.
    Get ten thorns off a goose berry bush and make the sign of the Cross over the sty with nine and throw the tenth over your right shoulder and the sty will go.
    Corn.
    Cut turf in your feet and it will come out
    Wildfire.
    The child who is born after his father dies can cure wildfire.
    Get a gold ring and rub it on the wild-fire and it will go.
    Pain in the head. Get the teapot when the tea is drawing and hold it under your head and let the steam go through your head and then the pain will go.
    Tie a cloth around our head and then the pain will go.
    Hack.
    Get wax and melt it and put it on the hack and it will get alright.
    Sprain.
    Put a strip pf black silk cloth around your sprain also rub goose grease of it and it will get all right.
    Toothache.
    Get a small frog and put him on your tooth and the pain will go. Put hot water
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael Gibbons
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cloondeash, Co. Mayo