School: An Drom (Drom Thurles) (roll number 585)
- Location:
- Drom, Co. Tipperary
- Teachers: Pilib Ó Ó Muireadhaigh Pádraig Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0550, Page 275
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- (continued from previous page)are boiled and the water drunk as a cure for Kidney Disease.
The juice of the garlic mixed with olive oil is used as a cure for Rheumatism.
The Ragwort or Duachalán Buidhe is a cure for Yellow Jaundice.
- Long ago people made their own cures. They used to put white bread stuped in boiling water to an earache. Another cure for an earache was to put flannels steeped in boiling water up to it.
To put pepper and bread-soda into a toothache it would cure it. Another cure for toothache was to redden a knitting needle and get someone to put it on the tooth. This was among the best cures to be found long ago.
A plant which grows in gardens is called "sore-eye". It is supposed to cure a sty and other eye troubles. The leaves of this plant are red which are to be(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilvilcorris, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Matt Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilvilcorris, Co. Tipperary
