School: Cromghlinn (C) (roll number 15411)
- Location:
- Crumlin, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Cáit Ní Óbáin
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“A cure for Rheumatism in the older days was to get the bark of an oak tree, boil it an drink a glass of it every night.”
A cure for Rheumatism in the olden days was to get the bark of an oak tree, boil it and drink a glass of it every night. A cure for the whooping cough is to go across the back of an ass and to go under him and drink his milk. A cure for yellow jaundice is to get a glass of porter and boil it along with goat's droppings and to drink the juice of it. A cure for warts is to get a stone with water in it and put it on the warts and to say when you would be putting on the water "Uisce cloc, cloc in earraid". A cure for boils is to go to a stream that would be running at twelve o'clock at(continues on next page)- Collector
- Máire Ní Fhaoithe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilskeagh, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Sean Ó Fhaoithe
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Kilskeagh, Co. Galway