![]() ![]() A doctor hearing the story of the St Brigid’s Well cure would wince at the thought of infection from conjunctivitis being readily passed from “cure” recipient to “cure” recipient by the piece of cloth hanging on the bush. ![]() Whether the cloth refers to a Brat Bríde isn’t made clear.īut the description helps emphasise a tension that can exist between modern medicine and folk (or indigenous) medicine. When finished they hang the cloth up on the bush,” they write. “Many people have been cured of sore eyes by going to this well three times and bathing the eyes three times at each visit. The contributor says it is situated in a lane called Brideswell Lane about 200 yards from the road. Dr Muiris Houston: Folk cures often have some of the same methods and goals of biomedicine and must not be neglected has a description of a St Brigid’s well in Clondalkin, Co Dublin. ![]()
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