School: Meelick (B.)
- Location:
- Meelick, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0597, Page 409
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- If the seventh son of a family walked over you, that would cure a pain in the back.
Rub a piece of fat meat to a wart. Then hide the piece of meat in the manure.
To cure a sty rub the eyes with cold tea and the sty will disappear.
Soft soap and sugar melted and mixed up together is a cure for boils.
Ferret's leavings of milk for whooping cough or chincough
Asses' milk is very good for young children
A bleeding wound is stopped by a cobweb
Bleeding from the nose. Lie on your back and put a key at the back of your neck
Chilblains. Bath them with soda and water.
Rub blue to a sting.
The lick of a dog's tongue cures ulcers
To cure earache, put a piece of cotton wool dipped in sweet oil into it.
To cure a cough, rub an onion along the spine.
Whitlow, heat cow-dung and rub it to it
Mumps, put a bag of roasted salt around your jaws.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- James White
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 77
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Meelick, Co. Clare
