School: Killossery, Kilsallaghan
- Location:
- Killossery, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: B. Ó Corbhallagh
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- (continued from previous page)crush snails and put them on the boil.
A cure for corns, is to melt washing soda and drop it on the corn.
A cure for welts, is to get black sheep's wool, and put castor oil on the wool, and keep it to the welt.
A cure for the yellow-janders (jaundice) is, to get dandelion and put milk on it, and boil it, and drink the milk of it when boiled. - A cure for a cut is to kill a sparrow and rub the flesh of the sparrow on the cut. A cure for a stitch in the side is to spit on a stone three times.
An old cure for the whooping cough is if you happen to find a crust of loaf bread and eat it. If you are walking through a field and get a cut, and if the cut does not stop bleeding get a puck-mushroom and rub it on the wound and it will cure it.- Collector
- Brigid Evans
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rath, Co. Dublin