School: Ballyhaise
- Location:
- Béal Átha hÉis, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: Thos. Plunkett
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- 20. Sprained Thumb
To be lightly bound with dried skin of a eel after having been rubbed with goose-seam (fat of goose).21. Burns
Shock - Fresh blood from a fowl mixed with milk - to be taken before it coagalates. Apply lime water to the burns. 22. Chicken Pox
(To drive out rash) cowslip wine taken hot.23. Black Eye
1/ Poultice made from raw beef and applied to swollen part.
2/ Poultice made from black "briony"-root and bread to be put on eye and to be kept there a few hours.- Collector
- Rosaleen Johnston
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Drumliff, Co. an Chabháin
- Informant
- Francis Shannon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Curraghanoe, Co. an Chabháin
- 1/ Poultice made from raw beef and applied to swollen part.
2/ Poultice made from black "briony"-root and bread to be put on eye and to be kept there a few hours.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Rosaleen Johnston
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Drumliff, Co. an Chabháin