School: Muirisc (roll number 16832)
- Location:
- Murrisk, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Cearbhaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0138, Page 540
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- A cure for rheumatism is a good sea bath and a good rubbing of sea wrack.
There are certain shell fish called clams when boiled and drink the juice area cure for billous attack.
A cure for a sty in the eye is usually a stab of a gooseberry thorn.
Buttermilk when boiled into whey is good for the flu.
A cure for tallach is to wear a strap or silk band on the wrist.
Corns are very often removed by occasionally bathing in the salt water.
Carrigeen when boiled in milk is a very good cure for a cold.
A cure for a pain in the ear is to put a piece of cotton in it.
When a person gets a toothache the best thing(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Meena Higgins
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 20
- Informant
- John Ruddy
- Gender
- Male
