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School: Cooley

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Cooly, Co. Donegal
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Eoghan Ó Beoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1116, Page 368

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    Years ago people had different ways of curing their different ailments. For the toothache they rubbed their gums with baking-soda or pepper. Another remedy was to heat salt and put it into a stocking and hold it to the part of the face where the toothache was.
    There are different cures for warts. Every morning for nine mornings to rub the warts with a fasting spittal or strong washing soda water. Another cure for warts is to get a snail and rub it on the warts then bury the snail. When the snail is dead the warts will be gone. Two years ago I had two big warts on my finger and a man in Moville cured them by spitting on his thumb
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