School: Baile Dháithí, Dunlavin
- Location:
- Davidstown, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Róisín Bhreathnach
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- (continued from previous page)If a patient had Whooping-Cough he was ordered to be put between an ass's legs nine times.
For pains or stitches on the chest put a mustard plaster on the affected part. For tooth-ache put the plaster on your left elbow for the space of five minutes. Nettles were boiled and eaten to purify the blood and clean the stomach.
Black currant vinegar was recommended for sore throats.- Collector
- James Rogers
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Donard, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Patrick Rogers
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 50
- Address
- Donard, Co. Wicklow