School: An Tulach Mór (roll number 11047)
- Location:
- Tullamore, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Gearóid Mac Piarais
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- (continued from previous page)water that came out of them and the person was sure to be cured.
68. A long time ago it was a cure for rash that came out through people to rub butter, the juice of the dock-leaf, and the juice of the dandelion to it, and after about three days it was gone.
69. A cure for pimples is to boil ferns and to rub the juice to them, and they immediately go away.
70. A cure to draw a bile is to put soap and sugar up to it.
71. A cure for a pain in the ear is to heat camphorated oil, and to put a little drop of it into your ear, and it will immediately go away.
72. A cure for murrain in cattle is to put a pint of bog-water into a bottle and to mix a(continues on next page)
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