School: Cnoc na Sná (B.), Mainistir na Féile (roll number 12368)

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1. Local Cures

   

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   A toothache

   - to meet a frog three successive mornings, and to make the frog scream.
   - to paint the wrist with turpentine.
   - to paint the tooth and gum with iodine.
   If there is a hole in tooth and the nerve exposed - to plug the hole with a bit of cotton-wool steeped in safron.

   Chin-cough or whooping cough.

   The leavings of a ferret's meal (milk or bread) to give it to the child suffering from chin-cough was considered a good cure.
   To ask the first man you'd meet leading a white horse "what would cure the chin-cough?" and to act on his advice - do exactly as he'd tell you.
   Another remedy was to go under the donkey between his fore legs for three mornings.
   Some believed that donkey's milk was effective cure for the chin-cough.

   The thrush (Craog-ghabar)

   To get a gander and have him fasting for nine successive mornings, each morning his breath to be inhaled through the patient's mouth.

   Warts

   To rub a black snail to them was considered a remedy.
   Your fasting spit for 21 successive mornings.
   Castor oil rubbed on them.

   Corns

   To walk barefooted in the dewy grass before sunrise.

   Jaundice

   Sheep's dropping boiled in new milk and to drink

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   D. O Connor

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Múinteoir