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School: Tigh Molaga (C.) (roll number 12457)

Location:
Timoleague, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Shíthigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0318, Page 217

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    corns
    ivy leaf on them, and on this put a poultice of bread and vinegar.
    chilblains
    paraffin oil; salt and water; put woollen stockings on your feet in bed.
    chin-cough
    a ferret's leavings; put the person who has this under a white mare donkey nine times.
    Warts
    washing-soda; rub a raw potato to them nine mornings; get as many small stones as you have warts, put them in a little bag, and let them on the road. The first person to pick up this bag is supposed to get the warts. Rub the water that comes on a cow-dung to them.
    hiccoughs
    bless yourself three times after the first one; take nine drinks of water; spit under a stone in the morning.
    burns
    bread soda or flour.
    craois-galar
    If a child who never saw its father, blew into a baby's mouth five times, and if the baby had this disease it would be cured. To rub a baby's wet napkin to its tongue.
    rheumatism
    scorch the rheumatic part with nettles.
    erysipelas
    heated brown flour rubbed on the swollen part.
    a pain
    hot plates or a hot bottle.
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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
    Siobhán Ní Aileanáin
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Catherine Hallinan
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    56
    Address
    Timoleague, Co. Cork