School: Scoil na mBráthar, Inistíomáin (roll number 16678)

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1. Leigheasanna (continued)

   

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   Corns: Get up at about five in the morning and run through dewy field you should do this for a week. Chilblains : Parafin oil, another cure for them it to rub raw onions to them. Blistered heel: The rub of an Ivy leaf. Boils: Soft soap and brown sugar will draw boils No matter what disease you have if you meet a man coming into town with a white ass he will tell you how to cure it

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2. Leigheasanna

   

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   Toothaches: Chew a frog's leg. Rub whiskey in it. Chew tobacco.

   Wart: Rub a snail to it and then throw the snail over a tree

   Sore throat: Put salt into a stocking and warm it and tie it around your neck.

   Chilblains: Rub the juice of a raw potato to them or put a hole in a turnip and fill it with salt and leave it there for an hour and it will fill up with juice and rub it to them. Chin Cough: Lie under an asses belly. If you saw a man with a white horse ask him in Irish for a curse. If he did what he told you, you would be cured.

   Boils: The seventh son of a family can cure boils by blowing his breath on them.

   Sty: Look through a ring to the grass.

   "Craos galar" A child that never saw his father to blow his breath on it

   Burn: Suck a lizzard three times and lick the burn

   

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