School: Cill Úird (B.)
- Location:
- Kilworth, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Suibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0376, Page 184
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- Rheumatism.
Put of packet of celery seed into two pints of water, and boil until reduced to one pint. Bottle and strain it. A table spoon of it taken fasting, in the morning and at night, is a good cure for Rheumatism.
Drawing Purposes.
The white of a dozen eggs with two glasses of whiskey, two glasses of vinegar, two glasses of turpentine, and a half ounce of Horse Horn is good for drawing purposes.
Kidney Disease.
GIve milk in which a mouse has been boiled to a person before going to bed to cure kidney disease.
Pimples.
Treacle mixed in sulphur drives them out through the body.
Ire.
The dust of a rotten stick put on ire cures it.
Burn.
A toasted primrose leaf put on a burn cures it.
Chill-blains.
Paraffin oil cures chilblains.
- Informant
- Mrs Marge Flynn
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 79
- Address
- Kilworth, Co. Cork
