School: Cúige (roll number 10773)
- Location:
- Coogue Middle, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0108, Page 023
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- (continued from previous page)small packet of steel needles into a green bottle of vinegar and leave them there until they dissolve and then put this on the effected part which will immediately cure it.
The juice of tea-leaves put on stys will remove them quickly.
A cure for a burn is to get some fresh manure and put it to the burn. Another cure for this, is to lick a newt and then lick whatever part is injured.
- The juice of a dandelion rubbed on warts cures it. Another cure for a wart is to go into a forge and dip the wart into the water in which the irons have been cooled.
There is a man living eight or nine miles from the school who has a cure for external cancer, he makes a plaster of herbs which he applies to the cancer. He keeps this cure as a secret and tells nobody but someone of his own family. He has also a cure for cow-pox.
The white stuff like milk in the centre of a Dandelion rubbed under the eye lids is a cure for yellow jaundice.
The sting of a bee is another cure for rheumatism.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Pearl Salmon
- Gender
- Female
