School: Rush (C.) (roll number 16125)
- Location:
- Rush, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Mrs Monahan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0785, Page 197
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- In olden days people relied on superstitions and herbs as cures just as much as we rely on doctors and nurses today. our forefathers firmly believed that a child by running between the legs of a donkey was cured of whooping cough. They even thought that by walking under a ladder they were cured of a head-ache.A toothache was cured by smoking a pipe full of "magootee" - the dried leaves of a certain weed. The juice of the dandelion was supposed to cure consumption.The butter-dalk was a cure for evil and to swallow live sea-pigs - the insects found under rocks and stones in the Summer, was considered a great cure for liver trouble. The sea-pigs were supposed to eat the disease off the liver.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rush, Co. Dublin
