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School: Tuar Árd, Áth Treasna (roll number 8893)

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Toorard, Co. Cork
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Éamonn Ó Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0353, Page 325

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    and lime-water mixed was put on it. If the old people got a pain in the back they used put around their bodies a flannel bandage slightly soahed in paraffin oil and turpentine. If they had pain in the side they invariably used a mustard-poultice. If they had Chilblains they used rub sour urin to them. If a person had sore eyes they would be washed in sour urin. Many old people use this cure for sore eyes yet. If a person has a headache, it was the belief of all the old people, that if he put a cloth which was out on the night of St Bridgets Eve around his head he would be cure.
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    To cure a burn sweet oil and lime water mixed were used, and sliced raw potatoes were used, a slice of the potato was put up to the burn and a cloth was tied around it. To crawl out between a donkey's fore legs it would cure whooping cough. To crawl out between cow's legs it would cure plucamar. I heard that a man once licked a lizard and any burn that he licked after it cured quickly. To tie your fingers together and let them so during the night it would cure a pain in the head. To cure Yellow Jaundice people used to walk in the dew in the morning.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Hannah O' Neill
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Gooseberryhill, Co. Cork