School: Naomh Pádraig (B.), Dún Mánmhaí (roll number 14784)
- Location:
- Dunmanway, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Young
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0305, Page 020
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- Sore Throat
Roast potatoes in the gréasach and put them into a stocking and put them to your throat.
Corns
To cure these people used walk barefooted in the dewy grass for some time. Another cure is to soak ivyleafs in vinegar and put them up to the corn.
Toothache
A good cure is to put a frog into your mouth and make him screach.
Headache
Wash your face in the dew and let the sun dry it.
Sore Eyes.
Wash your eyes with your fasting spittle. Put your eyes into the washing basin and open them inside in it. Rub your mothers gold ring to your eyes.
Boil.
Put a leaf of tobacco on the boil.
Whopping Cough.
Put the child under the donkey's stomach nine times and drink his milk. Give milk to a ferret and let him drink half of it then give it to the child. If you were going a long the road and you had the whooping cough and the met a man with a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Mac Carthy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dunmanway, Co. Cork
