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School: Swanzy Memorial N. S. (roll number 10428)

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Moville, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Eilis F. Ní Stiobháird
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    Local Cures.
    Calendine Great.
    It is the most valuable remedy for disease of the eye. Use as a decoctious or made into an ointment. The juice is the best way of giving it is efficacious remedy for janduice, scurvey, and all obstructions of the liver. The addition of a few ainseeds in decoction of it with wine, increases its efficacy in removing obstructions of the liver and gall. The juice applied to warts, removes them also ringworm. The juice mixed with sulpher is a remedy for itch. An ointment made of the roots and hogs lard
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Paddy Mac Sorley
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Greencastle, Co. Donegal