School: Carron / Carthan (roll number 7573)
- Location:
- Carran, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Muirthille
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0616B, Page 11_034
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Bleeding from the nose. Let a cold key down along your back and tie a string tightly around your wrist. Also to tie your fourth finger and small finger together and hold up your hand strait.
Chin [?] cough. To make it your business to meet a man with a white horse and ask him for a cure and do whatever he would tell you.
Diabetes. To drink the water of the seven streams of Teaska [?]
Syatica. There is an erb growing near every bog with a blue flower on top of it. It is a cure for this disease when it is boiled.
Rheumatism. To stand by the fire and to massage with parafin oil.
A cut or a sore. To let a dog lick it with his tongue : -
- Collector
- Caitlín Ní Conmara
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Meggagh West, Co. Clare
