School: Gurteen (roll number 586)
- Location:
- Gurteen, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Richard B. Bracken
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0530, Page 285
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- The people of bygone days used not go to doctors to seek cures for their ailments as they do now. Some people in the district had mixtures that would cure certain ailments which they handed down from father to son.
Tooth-ache
The people of days long ago who were suffering from tooth-aches practised many cures, one of which was to drive a red hot darning needle through the gum. To prevent tooth-ache a person would go to a church-yard at the time that a grave was being made for a corpse and get an old skull and pull a tooth it by his own teeth and keep it with him.
- Informant
- James King
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Lord's Park, Co. Tipperary
