School: Athy (Christian Bros.) (roll number 16705)
- Location:
- Athy, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Br. Ó Fiacha
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- (continued from previous page)their necks.
Another disease was rheumatism the old people would get a raw potato and put it into a silk bag and tie it around where the pain of the rheumatism would be.
Another cure they had was for a cold they would boil buttermilk and drink it boiling.
Another cure was for a sty they would get a gooseberry thorn and prick it
Another cure was that there were certain old men and women and they had a prayer which would stop you from bleeding, a man could not give it to another man and a woman could not give it to another woman but a man could give it to a woman.- Collector
- John Mac Donnell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Athy, Co. Kildare