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1. Local Cures - Gólóg na nAlt or Góilín na nAlt (continued)

   

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   practices the cure, and a next door neighbour of mine who had to be carried out to a motor-car when going there, got cured about two years ago. Recently a solicitor from Navan got cured after he had tried many doctors unsuccessfully. But some have failed to get cured. The Explanation is that she can cure Sciatica but not Neurites.

   

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2. Local Cures - Cure for Seile Seáin or Sine Seáin or Fallen Palate

   

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   (When a person is suffering from Fallen Palate he cannot either eat or drink and is in a terrible state.) I was brought by my mother on a donkey cart to Kells. We went to the house of the Gaw-geen Plunket, but he was in bed drunk and snoring. His wife told my mother to come back in a couple of hours and that she would have him up. When we

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)
            1. medicine for human sicknesses
               1. sore throat (~69)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Thomas Carty

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Rathkenny, Co. Meath

   Informant

   Matthew Tevlin

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Carnaross, Co. Meath