School: Headfort
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Miss J.E. Browne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0999, Page 055
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- (continued from previous page)cure for sprains, or the roots of comfery boiled.
A cure for chilblains is to wash your feet in the water that the potatoes were boiled in.
A cure fora stye on the eye is to point nine goose-berry thorns at the stye repeating at the time, "in the name of the Father and of the son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen."
Peter Conarty, of Knockatemple, has the cure for running worm.
Any person whose father died before he was born is said to have the cure of the dirty mouth, this is done by breathing into the persons mouth.
Vinegar put on brown paper and put on the jaw will cure the toothache, also iodine poured on wadding and put in the tooth will cure it. Vinegar put on brown paper and put on the jaw is also a cure for neuralgia.
For heart fever certain prayers are said and the sign of the cross is put over the sufferer.
A cure for the chicken pox is to boil nettles and drink the water of them,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Agatha Lawrence
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Enagh, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr Kane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Enagh, Co. Cavan
