School: Cashen, Baile Dubh, Tráighlí (roll number 14992)

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1. Cures

   

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   Sore Eyes: The thing I'd give is to get a sup of milk, a bit of good soap, a grain of sugar, and a piece of a "wake" candle and put um together and melt um. Dannie Sullivan had sore eyes, and I told him to wash his face in cold water in the morning, and to rub this to um. He did it and his eyes got all right. This cure went as far as Ballyheigue. Sore Breast: Cow's urine, and food he'd pass, these are the two first cures in the doctor's looks. Mary Callaghan, (Mary Richie) her breast was sore, and she came to me for a cure, and I told her put that to it, and she put three poultices of it to it, and it got cured and it came back no more. Cow dung is so good, because the cow eats all the herbs, and they are all in the cow dung.

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Biddy Power

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   Over 100

   Address

   Ballyconry, Co. Kerry

2. Cures

   

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   Taking anything out of an Eye:
   If anything went into our eyes when we were young lads, my mother would take it out by licking it with her tongue, and saying,
   Tá Dia ar do cheann, Tá Mhuire Máthair ar a glúin.
   Tógaidh an rud seo as do shúil.

   

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