School: Clochar na Trócaire, Tráighlí
- Location:
- Tralee, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: An tSr. Proinnsias
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0440, Page 070
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- (continued from previous page)2. Sore Eyes.
Cure - Gather 12 common noinín [?] and boil one fresh hen egg, break off the top carefully, extract yolk and put in the dasies with a little water and as much fine salt as would cover sixpence. Put on the top of the egg, cover the whole shell with paper, wrap in a 1/4" of yellow clay, and bake in turf coal for 1/2 an hour. The moisture produced in the egg shell was considered to be a real cure for sore tender and inflamed eyes.
3. Chin (c h) Cough and Whooping Cough were supposed to be cured of the patient drank the milk left over by a ferret.
4. Rheumatism - was cured by rubbing the affected parts with the rendered fat of the Hedgehog and sometimes the fat of the goose, and by drinking(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Cheallaig
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rock Street, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mr G. Fernane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rock Street, Co. Kerry
