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School: Áth Liag (roll number 15308)

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Athleague, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Máirtín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0264, Page 141

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    ache is cold whiskey, pepper salt, soda, salts, and turpentine
    Stomach Pain Swallow a smoke of a pipe or hot molasses.
    A Toothache:- cold water, chew tobacco, blue-stone.
    A burn Butter and breadsoda, linseed oil, and rocklime, sweet oil, the white of an egg.
    A Cut:- Ribgrass, a cabbage, an ivy leaf
    A Festered Sore:- a poltess of cow dung and new milk, soap and sugar, white bread, boiled bran, linseed meal stirabout, oaten meal
    A thorn:- A foxes tongue to take it out.
    Headache: Breadsoda in water.
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    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
    Thomas Boyle
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Coollusty, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Mrs T. Boyle
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Coollusty, Co. Roscommon