School: Lattoon
- Location:
- Lattoon, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Ó Hiorraí
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1001, Page 325
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- (continued from previous page)was used as a tonic to promote health.
Nettle roots were used as a cure for the whooping cough. They were also used as a cure for the prevention of the fever by many families by eating them 3 times in the month of March. Any person by so doing was supposed to be immune from fever for twelve months.
Mumps otherwise called "Liakna" was supposed to be cured by getting a donkey's winkers putting them round the patient leading him round the pig-sty three times.
Toothace was supposed to be cured by pulling a tooth from an old skull. At the sinking of a grave in a cemetery if an old skull was unearthed with the teeth intact in the skull and a person lifts that skull up and pulls a tooth out with his own teeth and replaces the tooth he is supposed to never have the toothace any more. The writer of this cure can verify this statement, he experimented 17 or 18 years ago and never had the toothace since.
Garlic was supposed to be one of the greatest cures for a cold or sore throat. By boiling the garlic and taking it with gruel sweetened with sugar at night going to bed it cured the cold.(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
