School: Roisín (roll number 12395)
- Location:
- Rusheen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Chorcoráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0343, Page 132
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- The old people had many remedies for curing their ailments, and I will now tell you a few of them which I heard. For instance if a child had the thrush they used the ganders breath. When a person had a sore hand or a sore leg, they used bread steeped in water for healing it, and when a child had the whooping cough, they used cross it nine times under a donkey.
The water that was used for cooling the iron in a forge was used for removing warts, and parraffin oil was used for healing cuts, and burns.
- Collector
- Joan Neville
- Gender
- Male
- The old people had many cures which are not used at the present day. The dog leave was a cure for nettle burns, and the rib leave was a cure for headaches. The food left after a ferret was a cure for measles. Sugar and soap was a cure for boils or skin trouble. The rib-leave was also a cure for corns. When people have a sore throat they put a stocking around it in the night and the pain was supposed to be cure in the morning.
