School: Ceathair Dhúin Iascaigh, Clochar na Trócaire
- Location:
- Caher, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Tréisín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0569, Page 224
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- The old people believed that a very good cure for rheumatism was to get a dead man's skull and grind a piece of it into a powder and, having mixed it with milk, bring it to the boil. This mixture, when drunk, was supposed to relieve one of the disease.
Another good cure for rheumatism is a mixture of red pepper and "first shot" whiskey or poteen when applied to the affected parts.
The old people had yet another cure for rheumatism. They believed, that if a person carried an onion around in his pocket, he would never get rheumatism. The person, who told me about this cure , knew a woman, who, although she lived to be ninety years of age, never had got rheumatism. The reason was that she always carried an onion in her pocket.
Corn beef pickle is a very good cure for chilblains. Forge water, that is the water in which the red hot irons are cooled, is also another good cure for them.
The best cure for a toothache is to visit a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary A. Walshe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Caher, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs F. Marah
- Other names
- Mrs F. Marah
- Mrs F. O' Mara
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Caher, Co. Tipperary
