School: Dún Flainn (roll number 9669)

Location:
Doonflin Upper, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Seán Ó Maolagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0169, Page 115

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  3. XML “Local Cures - Mote in the Eye”
  4. XML “Toothache”

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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. sore eyes (~94)
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    English
  2. Toothache was and is cured in this district. The last boy that cured it was John Edie James. He got a frog and put him in his mouth and he never had toothache since that day. It was when going to school he got the frog.
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