Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 2)

Date
1937
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0407, Page 0306

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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0407, Page 0306

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  1. "Give the children punch to drink" to put the rash out through them. Keep well covered as a child is liable to take anything (ie. to contract any bodily defect) such as weak heart, weak eyesight etc and anything got in the measles will stick to the child for life"
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  2. Diarrhoea
    Boil water, pour into the chamber and sit on it. Will give you wonderful relief. Also good for piles and to a certain extent for constipation.
    Style on the eye (in addition to what I wrote in Book No1: "Look through a wedding ring"
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    Item type
    Lore
    Language
    English
    Writing mode
    Handwritten
    Writing script
    Roman script
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    He took the bush...

    "He took the bush" Rug sé an chraobh leis (Doon and Cappa)
    "I'd give him the bush" = I would not come against him = I'd say he is (or was) right OR the Irish meaning
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