School: Clochar na Trócaire, Béal Átha na Sluagh
- Location:
- Ballinasloe, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Sr. M. Oiliféar
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- (continued from previous page)herbs were used for poultices. It is said that a cobweb was used for stopping bleedings. It is said that a dock leaf is supposed to cure a sting of a nettle. Long ago doctors were unheard of visiting the sick in country houses as the people used their own cures and quacks.Got from
Mrs. S. Kelly,
Brackernagh,
Balinasloe. - 5. An old cure for a toothache was to roast a fig and place it on the tooth immediately. This would kill the pain and will burst a gumboil or abscess on the tooth. Another cure is to put a piece of tobacco down in the whole of the tooth.
The whooping cough was cured in olden(continues on next page)- Informant
- Mr J. H. Ward
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derrymullan, Co. Galway