School: Roxboro, Luimneach (roll number 15680)
- Location:
- Roxborough, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Gheallagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0525, Page 028
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- (continued from previous page)Local Cures (continued)
Pleurisy.
Boil nettles and strain them and drink a wine glass full of the water three times a day.
Tapeworm.
Take a few bits of oatmeal cake and a few drops of turpentine and chew it well but don’t swallow it. After that take a teaspoonful of salt for nine mornings.
Whooping Cough.
1. If you met a man with a white horse ask him what would cure the Whooping Cough and what ever he would say would cure it.
2. Drink some of the milk left by a ferrit and it would cure (it) the Cough.
Stye in the eye.
1. If you have a sty in your eye rub your fasting spit every morning.
2. Look through a gold ring for nine mornings and the sty will disappear.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Jack Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derrybeg, Co. Limerick
