School: Bóthar Mór, Caherconlish (roll number 8342)
- Location:
- Bohermore, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Nóra, Bean Uí Chráinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0524, Page 145
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- Old people are well versed in ancient cures and remedies and they hand them down to the next generation.
1. Their cure for a headache - Put out a piece of ribbon on a hedge on St Brigid's Eve and when they get a headache bring it in and lie it around the head.
2. For a sprain - Wash it in potato water or in cold spring water.
3. For the whooping cough - A Ferret's leavings of milk, also what a man on a white horse would say
4. For a wound - A cobweb placed on the cut will stop the bleeding
5. For a toothache - A drop of iodine mixed with a cup of milk and gargled in the mouth, also a pinch of salt placed in the cavity
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