School: Scoil Mhuire (B.)
- Location:
- Skull, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Liam Ó Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0291, Page 529
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- (continued from previous page)bleeding. Boiled nettles were considered to be a very good blood purifier.
The leaves of a certain kind of buttercup were used as a cure for a whitlow. The leaves were first bruised well, and then put on the whitlow as a poultice.
Watercress was used as a cure for a cold.
For a bad wound the people used to make ointment out of a mixture of ribleaf and cream.
A pink flower found growing in a wet land was used as a cure for ringworm. This flower was boiled and the water was then rubbed to the ringworm.
The old people would always prick a blister with a gooseberry thorn.
The old people said that if a boy who was very dull was put sleeping in a house with sheep that he would become more intelligent.
A butterlike substance found on the stems of plants growing in certain fields was used as a cure for pains(continues on next page)
