School: An Clochar, Cill Ruis
- Location:
- Kilrush, Co. Clare
- Teacher: An tSr. Pól
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- There are numerous cures used for diseases in this district. Heated sweet oil is used for a pain in the ear. Vinegar rubbed to the forehead is supposed to cure a headache.The milk left after a ferret, or ask a driver of a white horse and do whatever he suggests - are cures for whooping cough. Lime water mired with sweet-oil cures a burn.Blue-stone and vinegar applied to ring-worm heals it. Water taken from a (strain) stream and boiled with milk is a cure for vomiting.Boric lotion applied to sore eyes heals them. Some people perform rounds at holy wells for sore eyes also. Garlic put into a person's shoes relieves rheumatism.For various kinds of boils, herbs and poultices are cures.
- Collector
- Maura O' Flaherty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tullabrack, Co. Clare
- The people of long ago had better remedies for cures than the people of(continues on next page)