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School: Listellick, Tráighlí

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Listellick North, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Domhnall Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0442, Page 465

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    A cure for neuralgia and tooth-ache was to get a plaster or poultice of mustard and then apply it to both elbows.
    To draw a boil they used to apply a poultice of hot white-bread (baker's bread) - it was first steeped in very hot water - to the boil. A cure for chilblains was to rub them with paraffin oil before they broke out.
    Another cure for chilblains is to rub them with salt.
    A cure for internal worms, was to put three drops of turpentine out of a fountain pen into a lump of sugar and to take it every morning fasting.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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