School: Lattoon
- Location:
- Lattoon, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Ó Hiorraí
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1001, Page 322
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- (continued from previous page)persons in the locality or within a radius of one mile.
Any person who licks a newt three times cures the burn.
The root of the docken boiled in an amount of water and a half wine glass taken in the morning for a fortnight was used for the cure of rheumatism and the root of the burdock decocted in a similar manner is used also to cure rheumatism.
White Lilly root fried in bacon and applied as a poultice to a sore or bielding ripens the sore and hastens relief.
In olden times and sometimes used presently is the tongue of a fox. It was carefully preserved for the purpose of extracting a thorn. Sometimes when a person got a thorn in his hand or foot and was not easily located the tongue of a fox was tied on at night and it seems that it has some drawing power for nearly on all occasions in the morning the thorn would appear on the surface of the outer skin and could be easily extracted.
Garden sage boiled and some barbadous tar and licorice and rock-candy made into a liquid state was considered a splendid cure for this disease and considered a perfect cure. I(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rose Mc Gennis
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coragh, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr P. Mc Gennis
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coragh, Co. Cavan
