School: Lisín, Baile na Caillighe (roll number 15564)
- Location:
- Lisheen, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Ríordáin
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burn prevents festering. Vomiting or empty reaching - The thick coating found in the gizard of a fowl -dried and mashed into powder and given to the patient in a drop of milk or water.Warts-Rain water lodged in a " green
stone "or cold stone"(opposite to limestone)rubbed into the wart.Fallen Palate-Certain people could cure this by catching crown of head of person and saying certain words.Raising Breast Bone -This is raised by putting lighted candle into tumbler and placing mouth of tumbler over the bow.The suction of tumbler caused bone to lift.Chin -Cough -Asses milk -Child is put out under the ass,three times without touching the ground or ass. If the old people met a man driving a white horse, they asked him for a cure for chin-cough .Whatever cure he gave them, they went home got it and chin-cough was cured at once.
