School: Drogheda, Christian Bros. (roll number 16718)
- Location:
- Drogheda, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Br. Ó Reachtabhair
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- Around our district when doctors were few in the olden times, the people then had to rely mostly on their own cures. Most of the old people with rheumatism say that if one with rheumatism sleeps without a top on his bed the rheumatism will be cured.
If one should sprain his wrist or his ankle, tie the skin of an eel around it for a while until it stops the pain.
If one gets a sting of a wasp or a bee get the skins off boiled potatoes and rub them on the sting, and it(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Gerard Bradley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Saint Laurence Street, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Dr Bradley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Saint Laurence Street, Co. Louth
