School: An Drom (Drom Thurles) (roll number 585)
- Location:
- Drom, Co. Tipperary
- Teachers: Pilib Ó Ó Muireadhaigh Pádraig Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0550, Page 272
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- (continued from previous page)mustard into the tooth.
Coughs are cured by steeping onions and sugar in water and drinking the juice.
Warts are cured by dipping them in the water in which a smith cooled the iron.
Mumps are remedied by putting dry salt in a stocking and tying it around the neck.
If very hot drinks are given to a person who has measles the measles will all come out through his skin and the person is cured.
A very heavy poultice of linseed meal put to the chest was a cure for bronchitis.
Corns are cured by lighting a candle and letting the grease fall on them.
Eczema is cured by mixing cream of tartar, sulphur and treacle and taking a spoon of it every day.
When a person gets a cut and cannot stop it bleeding there is a weed growing called the "Feabhpán" get the dust of it and put it on it.
Sugar of candy mixed with the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rita Cahill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drom, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- James Cahill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drom, Co. Tipperary
