School: Freshford (C.) (roll number 797)

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1. Local Cures (continued)

   

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   lint dipped in olive oil, and placed on the burn with a pad of cotton wool on top, did not take long to heal it. The juice of a lemon beaten into a glassful of milk and taken three times a day was considered a good cure for rheumatism. A glass of hot elderberry wine was taken to keep off a chill. An old remedy for a cough was flax seed, water, honey, rock candy and juice of lemons mixed together and drank as hot as possible. A leek beaten fine and applied between muslin pads is supposed to relieve inflamed eyes. A worm rubbed on warts and then hung on a hawthorn bush is supposed to cure them. As the worm withers away, the warts wither away also.

   If a sty was coming on his eye a person should prick it three times with a gooseberry thorn and this was supposed to cure it. To cure corns, ivy leaves steeped in vinegar is a good cure.

   Worms steeped in vinegar cured jaundice. Water cress, if eaten, was supposed to cure asthma. Snuff, put on top of a boiled egg cured worm disease in children and onions were supposed to cure chilblains.

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Sarah Dawson

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   13

   Address

   Freshford, Co. Kilkenny

   Informant

   Michael Kennedy

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   76

   Occupation

   Carpenter

   Address

   Freshford, Co. Kilkenny