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School: Mullingar (Pres. Convent) (roll number 934)

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Mullingar, Co. Westmeath
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Sr. Brigid
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    (Collected by Maura Cremer, Austin Friars St. and Irene Beglan, Cullion More)

    PNEUMONIA
    Six to ten onions chopped finely - put in "skillet" with the same amount of rye-meal. Add vinegar to make a paste. Let it simmer for 5 mins. Put into a cotton bag large enough to cover lungs and apply to chest.
    (called by old people Inflammation of Lungs)

    ABCESS
    cured by bathing in water in which parsnips have been boiled.

    COLD ON CHEST
    brown paper soaked in goose-grease or tallow and applied to chest.

    SORE THROAT
    salt roasted and put in a
    1) woollen stocking wound around neck
    2) Black-currants boiled in honey or sugar

    RHEUMATISM
    goose-grease rubbed on joints

    WHITTLOE
    camomile boiled and mixed with goat's butter to make a poultice

    MEASLES
    gruel made from asse's leavings. Give black ass feed of oatmeal - make gruel of whatever he leaves. The sick child to walk underneath ass three times!!!

    EARACHE
    a roasted on (?) applied as poultice

    SPRAIN
    bathe affected part in bog-water.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Irene Beglan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Culleen More, Co. Westmeath
    Collector
    Maura Cremer
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Mullingar, Co. Westmeath
    Informant
    John Daly
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Address
    Culleen More, Co. Westmeath
    Informant
    Mrs Cremer
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Mullingar, Co. Westmeath