School: St Brigid's, Castleknock
- Location:
- Castleknock, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Mrs Thornton
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- (continued from previous page)The milk from it and apply it to the wart.For chilblains:
Get a quart of boiling water add a table spoonful of mustard and soak the affected parts in it.For pimples:
Wash the face in luke warm waters and bread soda.For a cold:
Get a glass of porter and millet and add sugar to sweeten. Take it while it is hot go to bed and sweat it away.For shingles:
Get the blood of a true Keogh and get it put on for nine timesTo make the hair grow:
Make a ointment of burned leather and unsalted butter, rub it on the bald spot.For ringworm:
Get some wheaten straw and burn it black and mix(continues on next page)- Collector
- Rosaleen Hughes
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 10
- Address
- Knockmaroon Hill, Co. Dublin
- Informant
- Mrs Hughes
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockmaroon Hill, Co. Dublin