School: Anabla
- Location:
- Anablaha, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Seán Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0454, Page 018
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- (continued from previous page)into the milk. Then the person who had the measles used to drink the milk. and he was alright after a few days.
The cure for a nose-bleed was to lay flat on the ground and to put a key down your back.
The cure for a tooth-ache was to grip a frog's leg and to put it to the tooth.
The cure for Rheumatism was to heat [?] and to put them into a hut. Then they threw water on the flags, and vapour used to rise [?] of them. Then the people who had Rheumatism jumped into the vapour. they stayed in the hut for a few minutes, and then they went into tub of cold water. This cured the people who had Rheumatism.
The cure for a burn was to [?] cow-dung to the burn. This kept the burn from blistering and it also cured the burns.
- Collector
- Pat Kerrisk
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Inchicorrigane West, Co. Kerry
