School: St Boden's, Culdaff
- Location:
- Culdaff, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Doiminic Ó Duibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1123, Page 263
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- XML “Cures for Rheumatic Pains”
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- XML “Cures for Whooping Cough”
- XML “Cures for Sore Eyes”
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- (continued from previous page)Put an eel skin on your back where the pains are;
- Another cure for rheumatic's is to carry a few potatoes about in your pocket.
- (a) A good cure for "whoopingcough " is to drink mares milk three times a day.(b) Another is to go uder a donkey three times and eat bread from the donkey's mouth and the whooping cough will get better.
- (a) A good cure for sore eyes is to take ten jags from a gooseberry bush and point nine of them at the eye, and then take the tenth and throw it away.
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- Collector
- Kathleen Deeny
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- M. Doherty
- Gender
- Unknown
- Address
- Culdaff, Co. Donegal
