School: Ballyuskill (B.), Ballyragget
- Location:
- Ballyoskill, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: F. Mac Cárthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0866, Page 258
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- Long ago when people would have a bleeding nose. They would put something cold down their back, and the nose would stop.
- The cure for a burn is the white of an egg.
The cure for a cut finger is rub Iodine on it
When you would have a pain after meals take a raw egg - The cures that some of the people had in this locality for a bleeding nose was to tie the middle two fingers on the left hand and then to hold it up over your head The cure for a bleeding finger was to tie a cobweb around it and it would stop the blood. The cure they had for a pain in the stomach was to drink ginger in boiled milk.
- Collector
- Thomas Phelan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rosconnell Glebe, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Mrs Phelan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rosconnell Glebe, Co. Laois
