School: Baile a' Mhuilinn (Cailíní)
- Location:
- Milltown, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Siobhán, Bean Uí Dholáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0041, Page 174
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- 1. A cure for the whooping cough is to skin a hedgehog and boil him and drink his soup.
2. A cure for a sore throat is hot salt put into a stocking and tied around the throat.
3. A cure for a sore back is a flannel bandage soaked in boiling water squeezed out and afterwards tied around the back.
4. A cure for sore eyes is to wash them in cold tea brewed very strongly.
5. A cure for a pain in your ear is wool off a black sheep put into your ear.
6. A cure for a heart burn is a tea-spoon full of soda and a cup of water.
7. A cure for a burn is, the contents of gall of a pig, another cure is bread-soda applied quickly after being burned.
8. When would have a tooth ache they would rub salt and pepper in the gum.
9. The cure for the measles long ago was, if they met a man with a white horse and asked a cure of him whatever(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nellie Mullaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Milltown, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs Mullaney
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Milltown, Co. Galway
