School: N. Breandáin, Cathair na Mart
- Location:
- Westport, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádhraic A. Ó Módhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0088, Page 265
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- (continued from previous page)Any fresh cut: “Comfry,” which is a weed like a “docken” is used. The root is washed in water, scraped into paste and applied cold on cloth bandage to wound. It prevents inflammation and it cures. Corns: “Comfry” is also used in a similar way to corns.Warts: (a) Scrape the inside of an oyster shell into a paste and apply it to wart.
(b) Smear the wart with the juice out of the stems of a dandelion.
(c) Wash the wart in the water which is to be found in the hollow of a limestone. This has to be done three times.
(d) Rub a piece of bacon on the wart, go out and put this piece of bacon under a stone near the dwellinghouse. In a few days do the same thing. Do this altogether three time [sic], and the wart will disappear when the bacon has gone.“Thalac” [?]: (a) Tie a piece of the skin of an eel around the wrist affected.(b) Tie a silk thread around the wrist affected.
