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School: Cill Bheoláin (B.), Áth an Mhuilinn, Ráth Luirc

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Kilbolane, Co. Cork
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Tadhg Ó Séaghdha
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    Salt, pepper or whiskey is generally used to cure a toothache They are rubbed to the gum. A sore throat was cured when a gander breathed through it on nine mornings. The whooping cough was supposed to be cured by the food left after a ferret. Mr. Ring M.C.C., Curriglass, Newtown, Ráth Luirc can cure ring-worm by means of herbs. The jaundice was supposed to be cured by the juice of worms. Ten worms were dug, the last was thrown away and the other nine were used. They were boiled in water which flowed through three parishes & two counties.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael Cremin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Highmount, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Mr Michael Cremin
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    43
    Address
    Highmount, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Mrs Michael Cremin
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    50
    Address
    Highmount, Co. Limerick

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    Pepper & salt were mixed & put into the mouth to cure a bad toothache. To drink a donkey's milk and pass under her legs for 9 mornings was a cure for some disease. (?)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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