School: Leac Snámha (B.) (roll number 10957)

Location:
Lixnaw, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Dáithí. B. Ó Duilleáin
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    to the boil for a few mornings until the boil was gone.
    There was another cure for a sick person. It was to get the woodlice that are inside the bark of a tree and boil them in a saucepan of new milk and give it to a person who would have the jaundice and this would cure him.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eddie Horgan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Knockaunacurraheen, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Mrs Mary Mc Carthy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballintogher, Co. Kerry