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School: Killossery, Kilsallaghan

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Killossery, Co. Dublin
Teacher:
B. Ó Corbhallagh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0789, Page 215

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    crush snails and put them on the boil.
    A cure for corns, is to melt washing soda and drop it on the corn.
    A cure for welts, is to get black sheep's wool, and put castor oil on the wool, and keep it to the welt.
    A cure for the yellow-janders (jaundice) is, to get dandelion and put milk on it, and boil it, and drink the milk of it when boiled.
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    A cure for a cut is to kill a sparrow and rub the flesh of the sparrow on the cut. A cure for a stitch in the side is to spit on a stone three times.
    An old cure for the whooping cough is if you happen to find a crust of loaf bread and eat it. If you are walking through a field and get a cut, and if the cut does not stop bleeding get a puck-mushroom and rub it on the wound and it will cure it.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Brigid Evans
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Rath, Co. Dublin