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Castleknock, Co. Dublin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0790, Page 171

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    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 times
    To 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
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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
    Rosaleen Hughes
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    10
    Address
    Knockmaroon Hill, Co. Dublin
    Informant
    Mrs Hughes
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Knockmaroon Hill, Co. Dublin