School: Scairt (C.), Cill Dairbhe (roll number 4127)
- Location:
- Scart, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Mrs R. Eager
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- (continued from previous page)by filling a stocking with hay and putting it around the neck. A whitlow was cured by bread and water poultices.
Some people made iodine from seaweed and used it for a cut.
The seventh son or daughter is said to have a cure for a (sore-mouth) toothache. It is something like a bit of dough. The posthumous child is also said to have a cure for a sore-mouth, by breathing three times into the sufferer's mouth. I do not know of any certain day on which a child should have a cure. - Long ago there were no doctors so people had to find out cures for themselves. They made a poultice of sugar finely pounded and mixed it with soap. This was put to cases of blood poison.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Áine Ní Coileáin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Informant
- Mr David Collins
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50