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School: Cill Cruain (C) (roll number 11187)

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Ballyglass South, Co. Galway
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Brighid Ní Náradaigh Cáit Bean Uí Standúin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0016, Page 309

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    To cure the whooping cough they would kill a porcupine and drink its soup.
    When young children had the measles they were advised to drink a donkey's milk as it was a great cure.
    If a person got the ague and to swallow a live frog it would cure him.
    "Oarglas" a mixture made green leaves and oat porridge was regarded a wonderful cure for wounds and cuts of all descriptions.
    A crane's spit was a great cure for a burn long ago, and laundry blue is a cure for a sting.
    "Macra compara" - a green thick herb was a great cure for broken limbs in fowl and garlic soup is a cure for a bad cough.
    Dock- leaf juice is a great cure for sore lips or for schorches received from nettles.
    Houseleek and whiskey was a cure for the yellow jaudice.
    Soap sugar and mashed "buachalan" were cures for stone bruises.
    A bit of black sheep's wool if steeped in castor oil is said to be a cure for a pain in the year.
    If a person sufferening from a stye in his eye got a thorn of a gooseberry bush and pointed it seven
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eileen Ryan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Turlough, Co. Galway