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School: Kinsealy (C.)

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Kinsaley, Co. Dublin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0792, Page 236

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    demerara sugar. Leave it in a jug over night. Give it to the invalid. Tie a large warm round the child's neck for three days. Then the cough will go.
    Hold the child over boiling tar.
    Take the child to the gas works. The fumes of the gas will take away the cough.
    Give a piece of bread to a donkey. Pick up the crumbs. Boil them in milk. This is also a cure for the whooping cough.
    Colds.
    Boiled onions and milk.
    Mulled Porter.
    A posset of scalded butter milk.
    Tallow rubbed on the chest.
    Boiled flaxseed, put lemon and sugar into it.
    Make gruel put sugar and butter into it.
    Headache.
    Strong tea. A wet bandage tied on
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Feidhlimín Ní Cobhthaigh
    Gender
    Female
    Occupation
    Pupil
    Address
    Kinsaley, Co. Dublin
    Informant
    Caitlín Ní Chobhthaigh
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    36
    Address
    Kinsaley, Co. Dublin