School: Rinn Tuirc (roll number 9835)
- Location:
- Reenturk, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: S. Bean Uí Rinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0403, Page 251
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- Long ago there was no such thing as doctors and therefore the people had to depend on their own cures which were herbs. If a person had a bile he would steep white bread in hot water and put it up to the bile to draw it. If a person got burned he would apply the juice of the dock-leaf. For a sore they had a special leaf one side to draw, and the other to heal. There was a man who used to set charms for cancer. There was ointment made from the alder for burns also. A roasted onion was good for corns.
