School: An Tuar Mór
- Location:
- Toormore, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Ceallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0237, Page 197
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- In olden times the country people had their own remedies and cures for their ailments and they seldom consulted a doctor. The seventh son or daughter of a family has the cure of ring-worm. Yellow-leaves steeped in vinegar is another cure for ring-worm.The cure for warts was to rub a black snail on them and then hang it on a bush to wither. Another cure is to wash the warts in water contained in a hole in a stone. The cure for a toothache was not to eat meat on one day in the week and other cures for it was to get a clean piece of white cotton sprinkled with a little ammonia and apply to the decayed tooth also to take a smoke out of a pipe also to touch it with a dead mans finger.The cures for whooping-cough is ferrets leavings.(continues on next page)
