School: Maoilinn (B.), Áth Treasna
- Location:
- Meelin, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid de Brún
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- For pain in the back, lumbago or for kidney trouble a strip of red baize cloth is worn next to the body in the form of a wide bandage or belt. The cure or usefulness is supposed to be in the red colour of the cloth.
Nearly all the old women wear a piece of cloth of red flannelette on the head. This is what is known as the manacín.
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- Chillblains. A few furnished that chilblains can be cured by the application of pickle in which a pig has been cured.
Spirits is also said to cure them when the spirits are diluted with ordinary paraffin oil.
An application of iodine before they get too bad will also cure them.
