School: Barkhall (roll number 8343)
- Location:
- Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: J. L. Browne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1083, Page 351
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- Long ago the people used to have a great many more old cures than we have now. These are some of them.
If anybody had a bad cut that person would not go to a doctor or a nurse to dress it as we do now but just put a leaf of tobacco on it.
If anybody had a headache he would take a spoonful of baking soda and some hot water and mix both together and drink it.
They used to take hot water and salt for a sore throat.
If a cow or calf had ringworm the man who owned that beast would put tar on the spot where it was.
A cure for warts was to get a snail and rub it on the wart then cover the snail with clay and never look for it again.
Some people used to take soot for a bad toothache.
Some bad disease the cattle used to have the people boiled brier roots for the beast to eat.
If anybody got stung by a wasp that person rubbed blue on the sting and soem people do that yet.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Fanny Elliott
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Elliott
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
