School: Ínse Cloch (roll number 7101)
- Location:
- Inchiclogh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Críodáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0284, Page 049
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- (continued from previous page)Alum water was used for washing cuts. To rub a gold ring three times to your eye for to cure a wisp also. Water -cress for weak blood. To hold your head over a teapot of strong tea for a head ache. Heated penny leaves put up as a poultice to a chilblain or corn was very good, or paraffin or the juice of a carrot or the skin of a lemon for chilblains. The white of an egg or a slice of a raw potato for to cure a burn
Poultices of tobacco were used to draw matter out of a boil in former times, but later on a new plan was discovered. Hot water used to be poured into a bottle and when the bottle was heated, the water used to be thrown out again. Then the neck of the bottle used to be put against the boil and all the matter wold be drawn into the neck of the bottle.
- Collector
- Nora Casey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cahernacrin, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr J. Keohane
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Cloonygorman, Co. Cork
