School: Killmallock Convent School
- Location:
- Kilmallock, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: An tSr. Dimpna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0528, Page 272
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- Local Cures1. Leeches- Blood sucking worms were put into the eyes on wounds in order to suck the bad blood.
2. Red Nettles - TO Cure rheumatism, Nettles were boiled with a cloth inside the cover of the pot to keep in the steam. This cloth applied to the affect brought relief..
Food left after a feret is supposed to be a cure for whooping cough? Or chicken pock
4. Asses milk for whooping cough
5. Dandelion wine for asthma
6. Fasting spit for nine mornings to be applied for warts.
7. A cloth steeped in pickle and used a light bandage is a cure for a sprain.
8. Wild fire on a heat rash was cured by writing ones name all round it
9. A cure for worms was a lump of loaf sugar steeped in whiskey on water in which Tobacco had been steeped.
10. The cure for worms was to walk out in the dew barefoot.
11. Corns were cured by rubbing a paraffin oil on a raw onion
12. Sweet oil on bread soda was a cure for a burn.
13. A smoke of strong tobacco was a cure for a tooth ache
14. The juice of a dock-leaf cured a burn from a nettle.
15. Warts rubbed with a snail found when not looking for it was cured when the snail died after being stuck in a hedge.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maud Wingfield
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilmallock, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Mrs Keane
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Kilmallock, Co. Limerick
