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School: Lowtown (C.), Galbally

Location:
Lowe's Town, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0512, Page 523

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    List of local cures:-
    Juice of spurge cures warts
    Laurel leaf - plaster for burns
    Dried (?) for (?) fire
    Eyebright for sore eyes
    Roast turnips used as poutlices
    Woodbine for farcy in horses
    Dockleaf for nettle rash
    Mint for jaundice
    Syrup of poppies for a cough
    Three drops of a black cat's blood for ringworm
    Roast cabbage for boils
    Grass - cure for haemorrhage
    Three good meals of nettles in the month of May - blood purifier
    Food left by a ferret - chincough
    Dandelion - cure for jaundice
    Suaidhm na Píaste - gripe in horses
    walking under mare's legs - rickets
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English