Scoil: Baile an Gharrdha (B.) (uimhir rolla 2909)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Local Cures

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   A cure for a cut is to pour lamp oil on the cut. A cure for whooping cough is to put the sick person under a grey mares stomach. A cure for chincough is to ask a man riding a grey mare what cure he had for chincough and whatever he would say that would cure it. A cure for red-water in cattle is to watch the animal until he makes the red-water and then to stick a brass pin in it. A cure for murrain in cattle is to boil a goose feather and all and to give the soup to the sick animal. A cure for scour in calves is to boil the root of the dandelion and to give the juice to the sick animal. A cure for blast in a cow dug is to milk a drop of the milk into a bucket and then to turn the bucket upside down. A cure for a sore eye is to rub tea leaves to it. Another cure for a sore eye is to look through a gold ring three mornings in succession. A cure for a wart is to hang a snail on a thorn and according as the snail would be rotting the wart would be going away. A cure for a burn is to rub soap to it.

   

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   Stair Athraigh

   Topaicí

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

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   James Irwin

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Frankfort, Co. Limerick

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mrs Irwin

   Gaol

   Tuismitheoir

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Aois

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   Seoladh

   Frankfort, Co. Limerick