School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)

Location:
Gortaveha, Co. Clare
Teacher:
P. Wiley
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  1. 8
    Cures
    The best cure for a delicate person is goats milk because the goat eats all the herbs. Iviy leave is a great cure for the big gald in young cattle Linseed oil and lime water is a good cure for a burn on a person .A cure for a swelling on a horses leg is to bade it well with boiling water .if a person got a heaving off in the stomach they would boil the skin of the gizzard of the cock they would kill for St Martin.The bog onion is a great cure for a sprained foot.if there was a thorn in a mans hand that could not be taken out to leave a foxes tongue
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Séamus Ó Bríain
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Michael O' Brien
    Gender
    Male