School: The Downs (roll number 8875)
- Location:
- The Downs, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: S. Molloy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0730, Page 147
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- Long ago people did not bother about doctors.They had simple cures of their own A seventh son in a family was looked upon as a doctor and people believed he had a cure for a toothache and other ailments.If a person had a stye in their eye, they would prod it nine times with a gooseberry thorn.If there was warts on their hands, they would rub a black snail on them five times and then hang the snail on a gooseberry bush and look at the bush on the ninth day and if the snail was gone the warts were gone.The simple cure for a toothache was a poultice of oatenmeal.They would boil the water first, then stir in the meal until it is thich, then boil it and put it on a piece of brown paper and put it to their jaws, sometimes they would put a little mustard on the paper.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Betty Dunne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- The Downs, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Michael Dunne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 64
- Address
- The Downs, Co. Westmeath
