School: An Tuar Mór
- Location:
- Toormore, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Ceallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0237, Page 203
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- (continued from previous page)for a cold. People used give their children a spoonful of fresh "cow-dung" boiled on milk for worms. Dandelion is a cure for heart-beat and bread-soda for a heart-burn. To cure pluerisy is to bleed the persons arm. To cure swollen joints goose-grease was used. To cure jaundice their was a remedy composed of a collection of herbs. Another cure was the bark of a tree boiled and taken twice a day.To heal wounds there used be an ointment called "Lady's Mantle". When people used get a wound they used put rib grass inside the bandage. People used swallow a frog to cure the disease know as "argue". To cure boils a mixture of soap and sugar was applied. To cure a whitlow or suppuration of the finger ashes boiled in water was the remedy.A plaster was made to cure cancer and when this was applied it used draw out the cancer from the roots.
