School: Cromadh (B.) (roll number 9306)
- Location:
- Croom, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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“To cure St. Anthony's fire - a variety of skin trouble...”
To cure St. Anthony's fire - a variety of skin trouble in which a number of pimples appear together, "in a sod" as the old people used to say, generally upon the neck or about the chin:- You have only to write your own name around the affected patch in ink. I cannot see how one could easily do that if the patch or "sod" were under the chin or towards the back portion of the neck.I also saw in my native place the nicotine encrusted on the bottom of an old clay pipe, scraped off and rubbed hard into the affected spot. I was so treated myself. It was both painful and nauseating, but decidedly a cure.The former method was known in my homeland, but I never knew it to be practised.Ink was homemade from oak-apples.