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School: Mungraid (B.) Luimneach (roll number 14409)

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Mungret, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Mrs B. Mulroy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0528, Page 032

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    The seventh son was supposed to have a cure for everything. The seventh daughter of the seventh son was supposed to be a bone setter and did really set bones succesfully.
    Hiccough
    There lives a man in this district named Bon Guiney. He used to get the hiccoughs very often. One day he met a man who told him to swing off the rafters for a half an hour. He did as he was told and it cured him. If you had a hiccough you should take nine mouthfuls of water.
    Whitlow.
    A Whitlow is as red sore which a person gets on the top of their finger. To cure a whitlow you would get a potátó and scrape a hole in it. The bits of the potátó you would scrape out would be put up to the Whitlow. This is supposed to ease the pain and heal the whitlow.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Patrick Hartigan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Clarina, Co. Limerick