School: An Clochar, Cara Droma Ruisc

Location:
Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
An tSr. Emerentia
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0209, Page 012

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0209, Page 012

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  1. Rheumatism:
    My father, Joseph Glancy told me that small houses used to be erected near streams, in which fires were kindled in order to raise the temperature to as high a degree as possible. The sufferers used to go into those houses and remain in them until they were in a bath of perspiration. Then they used to rush out and plunge into the stream close by. Doing this twice is supposed to cure them.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. rheumatism (~57)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Brenda Glancy
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Joseph Glancy
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male