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School: Doirín na nDamh (roll number 5348)

Location:
Derreenneanav, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0467, Page 309

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    (continued from previous page)
    Soap, and sugar, and buttermilk, mixed together in a paste was used to draw a boil.
    Old people round here had a great objection to lancing a sore. They preferred to draw the matter with a poultice.
    I heard all these from old people in this neighbourhood when i was a child. They are all dead and gone now and their cures are no longer in use.
    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
    May O Sullivan
    Gender
    Female