School: Cnoc na Sná (B.), Mainistir na Féile (roll number 12368)
- Location:
- Cnoc na Sionnach, Co. Luimnigh
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Conchobhair
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- (continued from previous page)slept very well. On Wednesday morning the pain was completely gone and the boils were fading away. I paid my third trip for the self same treatment, and from that day forwards I was never troubled with boils. I heard also when playing with his school mates if he saw a worm on the ground, and made a ring with his spittle around it, the worm would wriggle up and die. I have a faint recollection of seeing him do so one time.
- Burdock roots boiled and the juice to which a little whiskey is added is a cure for boils and blisters.Camphrey leaves applied to fractures or diseased bones has the effect of helping to unite the parts and ease pain.Linseed oil and lime-water mixed in equal quantities is an effective lotion for burns and scalds.Linseed meal poultices and Indian meal poultices were common to cure boils, etc. Sometimes a thin slice of bacon-lard or yellow bacon was placed on top of the poultice when applying it to the sore, boil or lump.A very effective drawing plaster for boils, or absesses or sores is made by melting resin-ointment and venice turpentine together and when melted adding a little flour and boil the contents for(continues on next page)
- Collector
- D. O Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
