School: An Mhainistir, Móin Rátha (roll number 7636)
- Location:
- Mountrath, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Br. L. Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0834, Page 078
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- Long ago there were no doctors, no hospitals and no nurses, so people had to make their own cures from herbs and other such things. For a cold embrocation was used, which was made from milk and soap. For a cut on a finger cobwebs were put on it. A herb called dandelion was used for consumption. A blessed wedding ring, with a certain prayer was used for curing wild-fire and ringworm. The seventh son or daughter was supposed to have certain curing powers. Pot-dried flour for erysipelas. Onions were used for poulticing. A herb called comfrey was used if you got a sprain, and Cow-dung was used for burns.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- D. Delaney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mountrath, Co. Laois