School: Foynes (C.) (roll number 2814)
- Location:
- Foynes, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Eithne Ní Mhaidín
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- There are many old cures such as, if a baby had thrush on his tongue, the cure is to let the gander breathe into his mouth.
Also, if you had worts, to hide a bit of meat unknown to everybody, and according as the meat is rotting, the worts begin to disappear.
Herbs were used for lots of diseases. A very good and useful method of curing Rheumatism and bone disease is to boil yarrow and then drink the water. The latter has a very bitter taste while boiling, and when it is boiled it has no flavour. A cobweb is a great cure to stop blood from a fresh cut. If you had a bleeding from the nose a cure is to put a key down your back.
Also if you had worts, to dip them into water in a stone if you were not(continues on next page)- Collector
- Máire Ní Shéoighe
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr C. O. Malley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Foynes, Co. Limerick