School: Westland (roll number 8428)
- Location:
- Donore, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Mrs E.J. Roberts
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0706, Page 254
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- In olden times there were many queer cures used that we would hardly feel safe to use now.
A cure for whooping cough was to send the person that had the disease to a woman that married a man the same name as herself and get a piece of bread from her. When the patient had eaten the bread he was supposed to be cured.
A cure for a stye on the eyes was to stab the stye three times with a goose-berry thorn.
Another cure for the stye was to rub the stye with the cat's tail.
A cure for measles was to boil nettle roots and drink the water off them.
A cure for a sprain was to kill an eel and skin it. Then wrap the skin round the sprain.
Boiled nettle tea was a great Spring tonic.
A cure for a nettle sting was to rub a dock leaf to the sting and to say "dock dock cure my nettle sting."
Some people put ink or peppermint into their teeth for toothache.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Hilda Forbes
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shancarnan, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mrs Forbes
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shancarnan, Co. Meath
