School: Loch Coiteáin (roll number 10049)
- Location:
- Dromickbane, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0454, Page 333
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- For whooping cough - the milk left after a ferret.
A sea voyage and the latest - an air voyage.
For rheumatics - a bed strewn with nettles or to get stung by bees, or rubbing with whale oil.
For a Cough (Consumption) :- Dandelion was picked (by the sufferer) washed and boiled, and the liquid was bottled. A small quantity was taken occasionally - when it was required, to ease the cough.
For Pleurisy. Flax seed was boiled and the liquid was kept and drunk as required. For a bruise or a sore or a cut:Seal oil was a real cure, but it was hard to be got.For a burn:- An emulsion of sweet oil mixed with lime water, was rubbed to it.
For a Colic: Snadhin na péiste. A running cord was knotted over a calf's back. The idea was that the worm in the calf's entrails would perform a similar action to the cord, & loosen himself
Stiff Joints - were rubbed with goose-grease.(continues on next page)
