School: Doocarrick
- Location:
- Doocarrick, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Miss Oldfield
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1019, Page 056
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- First you get a herb which will be found growing on a mossy bank or in a meadow. The herb has green leaves and a pink flower. Sometimes it is hard to get.
You wash the herb, clean it, and put it in a saucepan with about a pint of sweet milk. Put it on the fire to boil and when boiled, strain it and give it to the patient to drink. The patient has to get in three times before he gets better.
- The sick person must take the horse's winkers and put it on his own head and get someone to lead him into the piggery and(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs R. Mc Cullagh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dernaskeagh, Co. Cavan
