School: Druim Mór (roll number 16278)
- Location:
- Dromore, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0166, Page 319
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- Long ago, in Ireland there were simple cures for ordinary or common diseases. For instance :
Whooping cough.
A child suffering from whooping-cough was passed three times under and over a donkey's foal.(2) Donkey's milk and 'ferret's leavings' are other cures.(3) If your father or mother met a man on a white horse and asked him for a cure for the whooping-cough, whatever cure he gave no matter how simple, would give relief if applied.sty in eye} A person suffering from a sty in the eye, who pricks it daily for nine days with a goose-berry thorn and then throws the thorn away becomes cured.Sore eyes } The juice of the house-leek, a plant which grows in the thatch, is supposed to cure sore eyes.Consumption } The 'ceann-abhán ; boiled in milk is really a cure for consumption.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- K. Kenny
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- M. John Kenny
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
