School: An Gleantán, Lombardstown
- Location:
- Glantane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Colmáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0362, Page 223
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- In olden times if children had the whooping cough their mother would ask the first man that would pass with a white horse what would cure the whooping cough and whatever he would say even if it was a drink of water, was supposed to cure it.
Young babies get a white coating on their tongue. This is called "thrush". It comes from feeding bottles. The cure their mothers got for it was to rub a gander's tongue to it for three morning in succession.
The old poultices were linseed meal and mustard for pneumonia and linseed was also used for an abscess.
The seventh son of a family is said to be able to cure a disease in horses called farcy.
In years gone by when people would have a tooth ache they would rub a skin of seven year old bacon to the tooth.
- Collector
- Séarlait Ní Chárthaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Skarragh, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs O' Callaghan
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 66
