School: Listellick, Tráighlí
- Location:
- Listellick North, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Súilleabháin
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- (continued from previous page)A cure for neuralgia and tooth-ache was to get a plaster or poultice of mustard and then apply it to both elbows.
To draw a boil they used to apply a poultice of hot white-bread (baker's bread) - it was first steeped in very hot water - to the boil. A cure for chilblains was to rub them with paraffin oil before they broke out.
Another cure for chilblains is to rub them with salt.
A cure for internal worms, was to put three drops of turpentine out of a fountain pen into a lump of sugar and to take it every morning fasting. - The cure for a cough was to get Carraghín [?] moss and boil it and after boiling it for about three hours to squeeze a lemon into it and then drink the mixture.