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School: Cloone (B.) (roll number 15442)

Location:
Cloone, Co. Leitrim
Teachers:
T. Ó Móráin A. Ó Corraidhin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0222, Page 046

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    If a child had the chin cough a usual cure was to get what fennet leaves after him and this cure cannot be surpassed.
    A good cure for a tooth ache is 'get some warm salth and put it in a piece of cloth and put it to your jaw.
    Old people when reumatism
    got in to their bones a fine cure was to put the bark of a tree into coald water and to bile boath and then to drink the water.
    A cure for warts was to put a fasting spits on the wart for nine mornings in succession, this cure always proved true.
    A cure for a sty in the eye is to get thorns off a gooseberry bush and put them to your eye for nine mornings in succession.
    Another cure for a chincoff was to go in and out under an ass for three times.
    A cure for sore eyes is cold tea to your eyes for five mornings.
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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
    Sean Quinn
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cloone, Co. Leitrim