School: An Caisleán Nua (C.), Cluain Meala (roll number 9250)
- Location:
- Newcastle, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Siobhán Ní Chochláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0571, Page 357
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- Those are the cures that the people around here have for the whooping cough, measles and rickets.
Whooping Cough:-
Dip a ferrets head in milk and give the milk to the child who has the cough.
2. Put the child under an ass's stomach three times.
3. Peel a raw turnip boil it and give the juice of the turnip to the child.
Measles:-
Boil goats leavings in milk and ivy leaves. strain the milk then and give it to the child.
Rickets
Bring the person who has it to a forge before the sun rises and wash his feet in the water left after banding wheels in it.
- Informant
- Bean Úi Shorass
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 71
- Address
- Newcastle, Co. Tipperary
