School: Baile Sluagh (Ballysloe), Gleann Guail, Dúrlas Éile (roll number 573)
- Location:
- Ballysloe, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó Dubhshláine
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- (continued from previous page)(6) The cure for the "Yellow Jaundice" was to boil the bark of a Barberry tree and drink it's syrup.
(7) Leeneck or swollen neck was cured by applying wide green leaves like water-lily to the part affected.
(8) A cure for the measles was to drink hot whiskey punch.
(9) Anthony's fire could be also cured by prayer. - Cures for diseases in animals.(1) Sulphur and linseed oil mixed together and applied to the affected part is supposed to be a cure for ring-worm in cattle.
(2) Salt and Buttermilk given to cattle was supposed to cure the red-water.(continues on next page)- Informant
- Mr M. Cormack
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Patrick Lee
- Gender
- Male