School: Baile Thomáis, Gabhailín (roll number 15407)

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   fourth morning and drain off the water again. Then put another quart of spring water on it and mix it up the fifth time and leave it there until the next day. Then you must drain it off and put the lime-water into a bottle. Then take a half glass of lime-water and mix it through a glass of new milk every morning fasting, it is good for the stomach and it will clear the blood. That was a good cure in the old days and people do not think much of it in these days.
   A cure for a burn in the old times was to get a small lump of lime and wash it three or four times in water and when you let off the water out of the basin get two glasses of sweet oil and mix it through the lime in the basin and put it into a bottle, then when it would be used for a burn put a quill in the bottle and rub the oil and lime to the burn and put at old piece of linen on the burn, and if the burn was bad it should be dressed three times a day and the

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
         1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patrick O' Dowd

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ceathrú an Mhóta, Co. Thiobraid Árann

   Informant

   Mrs O' Donnell

   Relation

   Grandparent

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   76

   Address

   Ceathrú an Mhóta, Co. Thiobraid Árann