School: Dromcollchoille (C.)
- Location:
- Dromcolliher, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Caitlín, Bean Uí Mhathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0497, Page 308
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- (continued from previous page)There is a disease called wild fire, it is very common amongst children, the cure for it is to write the patients name around it with ink.
The old people long ago used to gather the herbs in the field and boil them it used to cure bronchitis.
A cure for thrush is tp put a ganders beak in your mouth for three mornings also honey and borax.
If you had whooping cough a man with a white horse can cure it, and if you asked that man for a cure whatever he should say you should use it also milk left over after a ferret is supposed to cure it.
A cure for a toothache is to make a special promise never to break.
Another cure is to drink(continues on next page)
- Informant
- John Body
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Knockacraig, Co. Limerick
