School: Tobar Rua (roll number 15427)
- Location:
- Toberroe East, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Mhuireagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0016, Page 202
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - The old people when sick never went to a doctor but made up cures of their own. The following are some of cures:- For consumption a person would swallow a frog or snail. Yellow jaundice was cured by taking a green slammy substance with hot milk. For cuts rib grass or a little green leaf called St. Patrick's leaf was used. For a whitlow they used a piece of fat bacon, boiled porridge or a slice of loaf soaked in boiling water to draw the corruption out. It was believed that whatever cure would be given by the seventh son of a family for ringworm would cure it. For wildfire- a rash which spread- it is said that if a woman left her marriage on the spot it would not spread any wider than the width of the ring. To bathe sore eyes(continues on next page)
