Download or read book Irish Country Cures written by Patrick Logan and published by Sterling Publishing (NY). This book was released on 1994 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genuine remedies are contrasted with the outrageous and often hilarious quackery that has always accompanied them. "Meticulously indexed as to type of ailment and cure, the book is divided into three sections dealing with Internal Ailments, External Ailments, Methods of Treatment...folklore experts provide scholarly information on the history of Irish folk medicine with its rich source of healings and remedies."-- "The Irish Herald . 160 pages, 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.
Download or read book Irish Folk Medicine written by Patrick Logan and published by Appletree Press (IE). This book was released on 1999 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when people are increasingly interested in natural medicine and holistic remedies, this book traces the history of folk medicine in Ireland and examines its continued popularity. It reviews a comprehensive range of country cures for both people and animals, noting that many remedies date back to early pagan times before the rise of medical science in the 19th century while others arose in the 20th century as an alternative to modern medicine. With often lighthearted humor, this guide examines how folk medicine has always been a curious blend of common sense and nonsense. From attempts to cure a child of dropsy by tying it up in a rope used to hang an innocent man to driving away whooping cough with medicine made from sheep droppings boiled in milk, this book looks at how practical observations and natural cures often went hand in hand with useless and often dangerous remedies.
Download or read book Making the Cure written by Patrick Logan and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ireland s Hidden Medicine written by Rosarie Kingston and published by Aeon Books. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the rich herbal healing traditions of Ireland which resonate through the country’s landscape, music, festivals and language. Indigenous medicine, no matter where it exists in the world, is characterised by the oral transmission of knowledge and the necessity for each person to be in harmony with themselves, their society and environment, as well as the spirit world. Ireland is no different, and its traditional therapeutic approach is designed to address body, mind, spirit and emotions within the local social and environmental context. However, these ancient healing traditions are increasingly neglected due to the dominance of biomedicine as the country's primary system of healthcare. Ireland's Hidden Medicine explores how the core elements of any medical system are always the same: diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of ill health. These central elements do not change, but the medical systems which give them expression may evolve, mutate, and even die, because their fortunes are tied up with the changing cultural, technological, and economic paradigms of their societies. This book provides a fascinating look at the history and fortunes of Irish folk medicine - from the legendary god of healing, Dein Checht, to the coming of Christianity and the religious and social backdrop of the nation's development. The book also provides a seasonal guide to utilising Ireland's indigenous medicine, which provides a wealth of benefits and a connection to a sacred and therapeutic landscape.
Download or read book Cures of Ireland written by Cecily Gilligan and published by . This book was released on 2023-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's said that almost everyone in Ireland, particularly in rural communities, will know of someone with a 'cure'. It might be for the mumps, a stye in the eye, or a sprain. Indeed the author of Cures of Ireland, Cecily Gilligan was herself cured of jaundice and ringworm by a 'seventh son' in her local Sligo during her childhood. Cecily Gilligan has been researching the rich world of Irish folk cures for almost forty years and, given the tradition has largely been an oral one, has been interviewing a broad range of people from around the country who possess these mystical cures, and those who have benefited from their gifts. One has a cure for eczema that comprises herbal butter balls, another 'buys' warts from the sufferer with safety pins. There are stories of clay from graves with precious healing properties and pieces of cords from potato bags being sent across the world to treat asthma. While the Ireland of the twenty-first century continues to develop at lightning speed, there is something deeply comforting and reassuring in the fact that these ancient healing traditions, while fewer in number, do survive to this day. Cures of Ireland is an exquisitive book that will be treasured by many generations to come.
Download or read book Cures of Ireland written by Cecily Gilligan and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2023-08-17 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s said that almost everyone in Ireland, particularly in rural communities, will know of someone with a ‘cure’. It might be for the mumps, a stye in the eye, or a sprain. Indeed the author of The Cures of Ireland, Cecily Gilligan was herself cured of jaundice and ringworm by a ‘seventh son’ in her local Sligo during her childhood. Cecily Gilligan has been researching the rich world of Irish folk cures for almost forty years and, given the tradition has largely been an oral one, has been interviewing a broad range of people from around the country who possess these mystical cures, and those who have benefited from their gifts. One has a cure for eczema that comprises herbal butter balls, another ‘buys’ warts from the sufferer with safety pins. There are stories of clay from graves with precious healing properties and pieces of cords from potato bags being sent across the world to treat asthma. While the Ireland of the twenty-first century continues to develop at lightning speed, there is something deeply comforting and reassuring in the fact that these ancient healing traditions, while fewer in number, do survive to this day. The Cures of Ireland is an exquisitive book that will be treasured by many generations to come.
Download or read book The Holy Wells of Ireland written by Patrick Logan and published by Colin Smythe. This book was released on 1980 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Folk Healing and Health Care Practices in Britain and Ireland written by Ronald George Moore and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'This is a fascinating and beautiful organized and written manuscript'-Rebecca Lester, Washington University in St. Louis.
Download or read book Irish Folk Cures written by Padraic O'Farrell and published by Gill & MacMillan. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attributing healing to supernatural powers originated long before the establishment of modern medicine in the seventeenth century. It was a universal phenomenon. American Indian chiefs, African witch doctors, medical men in Australia, Europe and Asia all held the respect of their communities. In Ireland, people simply were unaware of any other possible source of illness than a hostile spirit. There was a strong tradition of fairy lore and a deeply religious ethos among the people. So, if a person was living a reasonably sinless life and fell sick, the accepted culprits were demons or fairy folk. To deal with these, therefore, many folk cures involved secret incantations. While people were glad to accept these, they were even more pleased to leave any possible blame for invoking supernatural powers of healing to another. Psychologists might agree that the pace of Irish folk life in the past was in itself health-giving. It had time for neighbourliness, for helping out, for sympathetic chat with someone in trouble. The rituals in which healers engaged were often drawn out. They impressed the patient or his representative. Folk medical practitioners had 'cures', but above all they had
Download or read book Legends Charms and Superstitions of Ireland written by Lady Wilde and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowhere in the nineteenth century did interest in folklore and mythology have a more thorough revival than in Ireland. There, in 1887, Lady Francesca Speranza Wilde, Oscar Wilde's mother and a well-known author in her own right, compiled this collection of charming, authentic folk tales. Collected from among the peasantry and retaining their original simplicity, the myths and legends reveal delightfully the Irish people's relationship with a spiritual and invisible world populated by fairies, elves, and evil beings. Included in Lady Wilde's collection, among others, are eerie tales of "The Horned Women," "The Holy Well and the Murderer," and "The Bride's Death-Song," as well as beguiling accounts of superstitions concerning the dead, celebrations and rites, animal legends, and ancient charms. The first book to link Irish folklore with nationalism, Legends illustrates the mythic underpinnings of the Irish character and signals the country's cultural reemergence. It remains, said the Evening Mail, "an important contribution to the literature of Ireland and the world's stock of folklore."
Download or read book Signs Cures Witchery written by Gerald Milnes and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The persecution of Old World German Protestants and Anabaptists in the seventeenth century--following debilitating wars, the Reformation, and the Inquisition-- brought about significant immigration to America. Many of the immigrants, and their progeny, settled in the Appalachian frontier. Here they established a particularly old set of religious beliefs and traditions based on a strong sense of folk spirituality. They practiced astrology, numerology, and other aspects of esoteric thinking and left a legacy that may still be found in Appalachian folklore today. Based in part on the author's extensive collection of oral histories from the remote highlands of West Virginia, Signs, Cures, and Witchery; German Appalachian Folklore describes these various occult practices, symbols, and beliefs; how they evolved within New World religious contexts; how they arrived on the Appalachian frontier; and the prospects of those beliefs continuing in the contemporary world. By concentrating on these inheritances, Gerald C. Milnes draws a larger picture of the German influence on Appalachia. Much has been written about the Anglo-Celtic, Scots-Irish, and English folkways of the Appalachian people, but few studies have addressed their German cultural attributes and sensibilities. Signs, Cures, and Witchery sheds startling light on folk influences from Germany, making it a volume of tremendous value to Appalachian scholars, folklorists, and readers with an interest in Appalachian folklife and German American studies.
Download or read book The Wily O Reilly Irish Country Stories written by Patrick Taylor and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly made most readers' acquaintance in Patrick Taylor's bestselling novel An Irish Country Doctor, he appeared in a series of humorous columns originally published in Stitches: The Journal of Medical Humour. These warm and wryly amusing vignettes provide an early glimpse at the redoubtable Dr. O'Reilly as he tends to the colourful and eccentric residents of Ballybucklebo, a cozy Ulster village nestled in the bygone years of the early sixties. Those seminal columns have been collected in The Wily O'Reilly: Irish Country Stories. In this convenient volume, Patrick Taylor's legions of devoted fans can savor the enchanting origins of the Irish Country series . . . and newcomers to Ballybucklebo can meet O'Reilly for the very first time. An ex-Navy boxing champion, classical scholar, crypto-philanthropist, widower, and hard-working general practitioner, Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly is crafty and cantankerous in these charming slices of rural Irish life. Whether he's educating a naive man of the cloth in the facts of life, dealing with chronic hypochondriacs and malingerers, clashing with pigheaded colleagues, or raising a pint in the neighborhood pub, the wily O'Reilly knows a doctor's work is never done, even if some of his "cures" can't be found in any medical text! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Medicine Disease and the State in Ireland 1650 1940 written by Greta Jones and published by Cork University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering collection of essays aiming to open up the previously neglected area of the social history of medicine in Ireland.
Download or read book Cultures of Care in Irish Medical History 1750 1970 written by C. Cox and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring aspects of Irish medical history, from the nature and proposed remedies for various illnesses in eighteenth century Ireland, to the treatment of influenza in twentieth-century Ireland, this book shows how the cultures of medical care evolved over three centuries.
Download or read book Folk Healing and Health Care Practices in Britain and Ireland written by Ronnie Moore and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folk, alternative and complementary health care practices in contemporary Western society are currently experiencing a renaissance, albeit with features that are unique to this historical moment. At the same time biomedicine is under scrutiny, experiencing a number of distinct and multifaceted crises. In this volume the authors draw together cutting edge cross-cultural, interdisciplinary research in Britain and Ireland, focusing on exploring the role and significance of healing practices in diverse local contexts, such as the use of crystals, herbs, cures and charms, potions and lotions.
Download or read book Ancient Cures Charms and Usages of Ireland written by Lady Wilde and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any book written by Lady Wilde is sure to be marked by graceful fancy, fervid eloquence, and intense love of her country. In the present work we find all these characteristics; but when one has said that, one has said most that is possible to say in its favour. It is to some extent a sequel to her former book, Ancient Legends of Ireland, and it is marked by just the same faults which deprived that publication of almost all value as a trustworthy treatise on folklore. Everything which real students most desire-mention of authorities, local touches, chronological and topographical details; anything that would render it possible to separate genuine ancient legend from modern invention or artistic embellishment-all these are either carelessly omitted or carefully suppressed. It is most unfortunate that everyone of the writers who have dealt with Irish folk-lore should have treated it much in the same fashion. Lady Wilde only follows the example set by Crofton Croker, Lover, and the far greater Carleton. But for most of the others an excuse can be made which is not available in her case. From the novelists, pure and simple, we cannot expect scientific accuracy in dealing with legendary tales. It is quite in accordance with the fitness of things that the writer of fiction should alter and adapt to his purpose the traditions he uses; but with a professed collector of folk-lore such imaginative treatment of the old stories becomes almost a literary crime. And yet this mode of treatment seems now to be deliberately adopted and advocated by some writers. So much is this the case that in a little collection of Irish Fairy and Folk Tales, published not long ago in the Camelot Classics (a charming little book, by the way, from the purely literary point of view), the editor goes out of his way to gibe at the honest folk-lorist who tolls what he has actually heard, not what he thinks he might have heard, or what he thinks his audience would like to hear. The folk-lorists are treated as mere dull, prosaic people of no account, who "tabulate their tales informs like grocers' bills." How much better it would be, we are led to suppose, to make the rude folklore the foundation of a pleasant literary sketch which will interest the reader, to do like Samuel Lover and Crofton Croker, who have, forsooth, "caught the very voice of the people, the very pulse of life"! Do not the advocates of the essentially vicious method thus defended see that the result of it will be to deprive us of any real folk-lore at all? We shall have a mass of pretty tales, of weird ghost stories, of quaintly humorous anecdotes more or less based upon ancient tradition; but it will be impossible to distinguish between the various ingredients of which they are composed-to say: This represents the actual legendary lore of the Irish folk; that is the product of the literary fancy of Croker, or Lover, or Lady Wilde. That the country whose folklore, if honestly transcribed, might be the most valuable as well as the most beautiful of any in Europe should thus be represented by a literary sham instead of a scientific reality is a very distinct misfortune. And the pity of it is that it is now almost too late to gather up the precious treasures which the imaginative writers have despised. The old legends are dying out, or are becoming adulterated with modern invention by the country people themselves. The time for securing them in their original purity is fast slipping away; many have been already lost beyond recovery. All the more reason to make an earnest appeal for the reverent handling of those that remain. There are, I believe, at present at least three workers engaged in the task of collecting the folk tales of Ireland-Mr. Douglas Hyde, Mr. David Fitzgerald, and Mr. W. Larminie. It is to be hoped that these writers will have the courage to avoid the evil example of their predecessors in the same field.... -The Academy, Volume 38
Download or read book Folk Medicine written by D. C. Jarvis and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth study of traditional folk medicine in Vermont, written by a formally trained doctor. Folk medicine is an imperative aspect of many Vermonters’ lives and health. Trained medical doctor D. C. Jarvis set out to investigate this traditional approach to herbal medicine and produced this little guide to provide knowledge and understanding of the nature and long-successful uses of folk medicine. An invaluable read for anyone interested in daily increased vitality. The chapters featured in this volume include: - Vermont Environment and the Life Span - The Animal Laws - Your Beginning - Your Racial Pattern and Vermont Folk Medicine - The First Yardstick of Your Health - The Instincts of Childhood - Potassium and Its Uses - The Usefulness of Honey - The Usefulness of Kelp - The Importance of Iodine - Castor Oil and Corn Oil - Medical Reasoning Behind Vermont Folk Medicine
