School: Naomh Muire, Droichead Átha (roll number 8052)
- Location:
- Drogheda, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Sr. M. Bernard Mc Cabe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0680, Page 261
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- Forge water is a cure for warts.
Tan water is a cure for corns.
Bog water is good for pains.
Roasted salt is good for sore throats.
Nettle broth in the spring time is a blood purifier.
Celery is used for preventing gout and rheumatism.
Flax seed boiled with a lemon along with hot water is very good for a cold.
A roasted sparrow for a black eye.
Blackcurrant drink for a cold.
Boiled buttermilk and sugar for a cold.
If you rub a row potato to warts it cures them.
The cure of chilblains is to cut an onion and rub it on them.
A sty on the eye is cured by pointing ten.
The cure of ringworm is to burn old hay and the ashes of it cures it.
The cure of a sore throat is to put salt in a stocking and roast it.
The cure of a very deep cut is to get hot water and salt in it.
- Collector
- Dodo Carey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mount Saint Oliver, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mrs Deary
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 57
- Address
- George's Street, Co. Louth
