School: Lattoon
- Location:
- Lattoon, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Ó Hiorraí
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1001, Page 321
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- There was a disease common in the older days with married women in their last stages of pregnancy. It was called by the old women the "longing way". It was supposed that the child in the matrix commences putting out its tongue producing a state of lassitude and weakness with a tired feeling in the mother. Any small portion of a cooked eel cured this disease.
A sty on the eye is pretty common in every district and the person so afflicted can cure it by plucking ten gooseberry thorns throwing the tenth away and by placing them pointed toward the sty nine successive mornings and saying "In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost".
Whitlow, ringworm, jaundice, heartfever, sprain, and the cure of the mote in the eye are all called secret cures and are handed down generation after generation and like the famous cure for hydrophobia held by the family of Mc Governs in the town of Glan in the north-western part of the County Cavan, The party holding the cure before they die give it to some member of the family. The diseases aforementioned that is ringworm etc., are all cured by(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rose Mc Gennis
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coragh, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr P. Mc Gennis
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coragh, Co. Cavan
