School: Listellick, Tráighlí
- Location:
- Listellick North, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Súilleabháin
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- (continued from previous page)The cure for freckles was to wash your face in sour milk or in butter milk.
The cure for indigestion was to drink a glass of water having half a spoon of soda dissolved in it.
The cure for weak or thin blood was to take a raw egg with a glass of cream every day.
The cure for the mumps was to rub caster oil to your neck and the swollen parts.
The cure for rash was to drink new milk having sulphur mixed with it.
The cure for vomiting was first to boil sour-milk and then to mix new milk with it and then drink the mixture.- Informant
- Mrs Roche
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Ballynahoulort, Co. Kerry