School: Ros Mór, Béal Átha Fhinghín (roll number 10378)

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1. Local Cures

   

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   There are many local belief with regard to cure. Camomile flowers boiled in cream will heal swellings. If a persion had a sprained limb to hold it under a stream of running water would do it good. If a person had bronchitis to go to a well early in the morning and to drink water without using any vessel. It is said that donkey's milk would cure whooping cough. Strong tea and breadsoda would cure a headache. If you put a frog in your mouth you would never get a toothache. If you had warts, put a wart weed under a stone and according as the weed would be rotting the warts would be going away, but you should not tell anyone about it. Pennyleaves would cure corns. If you have a sore throat put a stocking that you would be wearing around your neck. To boil wood-lice and eat them is a cure for measles.

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)
   2. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
         1. penal times (~4,335)
   3. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Michael Donovan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Derryvreen, Co. Cork