School: Caherelly, Grange, Kilmallock (roll number 2184)
- Location:
- Caherelly, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: John Raleigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0524, Page 254
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- In former times people sought remedies for their ailments from herbs in the fields such as dock-leaves, dandelions, & comfrey-roots.
A cure for warts on the hand was to put your hand down in water collected in a hole in a tree-stump.
Another remedy for the same ailment was to rub a snail to the wart, and then stick the snail on a thorn-bush until he withered away.
According as he withered away, the wart was supposed to wither also.
Stings from nettles, or other plants of a similar nature; were cured by applying a fresh dock-leaf to the part effected.
Comfrey-roots after being dug up, cleaned, boiled, and pounded to a jelly; were applied as a poultice to a broken limb or a sprained ankle or wrist,and all in all cases it was found to be effective.
Chilblains were cured by(continues on next page)
