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School: Coillte Críotáin

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Erris, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Nóra Nic Aodhgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0236, Page 307

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    1. The cure for the Whooping Cough is ferret's leavings.
    2. If there are seven sons with no daughters born between them, The seventh has the cure of the Ring-Worm.
    3. If you have a tooth ache smoke a cigarette or chew-tobacco or epsom salts.
    4. If you get a burn put bread-soda on it.
    5. If you get a wart get a hair of a horses' tail and tie it round the wart or when you pass by a rock with a cleft in it, rub the water on the wart.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teresa Toolin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kiltycreaghtan, Co. Roscommon