Scoil: Borris (C.)

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1. Local Cures (ar lean)

   

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   the neck.
   (2) "Blend" roast potato & bandage it round the neck
   (3) Wrap a stocking that you have worn round your neck & let the sole come in contact with the skin.
   (4) Drink "posset" i.e. a mixture of scalded buttermilk, oatmeal & sugar.
   To get rid of Whooping Cough:
   (1) Creep to & fro under a donkey three times every day.
   (2) Give an ass a piece of bread & eat the crumbs that fall from the animal's mouth.
   In this district the under-mentioned were always regarded as being gifted in science of Healing:
   Johnny Neill Myshall was a famous bone-setter: he visited Borris every fair day. His son seems to have inherited the Gift but I doubt if he be as compe[t]ent as his father R.I.P
   Mrs Murphy Skeough who died a couple of months ago (R.I.P.) was famous as a curer of External Cancer.
   Mrs Doyle Ballinkillen used to make up an ointment for burns - a cure that was never known to fail.

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   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

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   Maureen Clancy

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   Borris, Co. Carlow