School: Scoil na mBráthar, Clonmel
- Location:
- Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: S. A. de Faoite
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- (continued from previous page)for rheumatism.
The common potato sliced and placed on the part effected by rheumatism is said to be a cure.
A piece of goats ear pinnned on your clothes is a cure for the whooping cough also.
For a sore eye a piece of green paper up to your eye.
For a lump a cold stone put up to it.
For a poisoned hand a piece of blue dropped into it.
For a corn a piece of soap rubbed to it.
The juice of boiled nettles is good for the blood and dandelion juice is also good for the blood.
The bark of certain trees are good for yellow jaundice. Camellion flowers were very good for toothaches.
Cold tea is very good for sore eyes.
There is a well in the Church in Clonmel in a tree and it is a great cure for warts. Rub the water o the warts three times and they are cured.
If you put a whittle into a potatoe-water it is supposed to cure it.
People say that the Marsh Mallow is a cure for sprains.
People used also cure coughs with turnips and brown sugar.
In olden days cobwebs were used for healing cuts.
Bread and milk would cure a cut of a saw.
They say that a lick of a dog would take a sore away
The morning dew is a cure for sore toes.
For a fractured bone a plaster of cow manure and hogs feed.
There is a small green fern growing on old walls and ruins and it is very good for anyone suffering from the nerves.
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