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School: Attymass B.

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Attymass, Co. Mayo
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P. Ó Flannghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0127, Page 336

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    Some of the old quacks or cures are still done to save expenses.
    Toothache:- To take a smoke of tobacco will kill the nerve. To put a leaf of tobacco on the tooth takes the pain away. To put a bit of soot in the hole in a tooth relieves you. To put a drop of iodine in the hole of the tooth kills the pain. A grain of baking soda put in your mouth and left there until it would melt and then swallowed is a cure.
    IF you wanted to get a tooth out, put a little grain of salt-peter in the hole in the tooth and it will shatter it to pieces and fall out but there is great danger of it breaking the teeth around the bad tooth.
    Warts
    Warts used to be cured with water that would be lodged in a hole in a flag or stone after a shower of rain, or with the froth at a waterfall. To steep the wart in it was supposed to be good. A snail also was supposed to cure a wart by rubbing him into it.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Othon Ferguson
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    James Ferguson
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    65
    Address
    Attymass, Co. Mayo