School: Gleann na gCreabhar (Anglesboro), Baile Mhistéala (roll number 10262)
- Location:
- Anglesborough, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Cadhla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0514, Page 062
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“Patrick O' Dwyer of Fahanasoodry who lived about 1885 was a noted Herb Doctor.”
(continued from previous page)Chin Cough
(a) Go out before your breakfast and dig a sod. Pick the red worms from the sod and boil them in new milk. Give the milk to the children to drink.
(b) Creep out under a white horses belly.
(c) Boil the thalice-weed and drink the water.
(d) The milk that the ferret leaves after him is a certain cure. (People often come to my house for "ferrets milk".
(e) The blood of a black cat.
(f) Skin a mouse and boil him.
Measles : A sure cure is sheeps' droppings boiled in new milk. Strain the milk and give it to the child to drink.Worms: (a) For worms in children mix a little ordinary gunpowder with sugar and give to the child. I myself knew a child that this killed but I know hundreds who were cured by it.(continues on next page)