School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)
- Location:
- Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Foghlú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0289, Page 161
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- (continued from previous page)A cure for a weak person's health is to boil a plant called "camomile" with brown sugar or porter.
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"Panacea" is a cure for all diseases.
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A cure for warts is to rub boiled potato water to them or pickle.
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Two teaspoonfuls of salt in water is a good cure for a person who has eaten poisonous berries.
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Olive oil or castor oil is good for scalds.
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Dock leaves are reliefs for nettle stings.
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A remedy for sunstroke is to loosen clothes, and put the patient into shade and apply ice to head.
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A cure for a mad dog or snake bite is to tie a cord above the wound, an animal to suck it, and cut out the adjoining parts with a knife.
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A cure for a sore tongue is to rub the belly of an "eascú luachra" to it.
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If a person ate rat-poison, a drink of lime-water would relieve him
- Collector
- Teresa Coughlan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs J. Coughlan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
