School: Saggart

Location:
Saggart, Co. Dublin
Teacher:
E. Ó Monacháin
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    (7) Sore eyes bathe them in cold tea.
    (8) When a child has the whooping cough give an ass bread and any it dribbles out of its mouth boil it on milk and give it to the child and put the child under the ass belly and over his back thrice times
    (9) To cure ringworm rub blood on it.
    (10) To stop your nose from bleeding put a key on the back of your neck
    (11) To stop a cut from bleeding chew rub grass and put it on the cut.
    (12) Roasted salt to cure lumps in the neck. Seamús McCionnaigh
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    2. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
        1. Patrick Sarsfield (~22)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Seamús Mac Cionnaigh
    Gender
    Male