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School: Baldoyle Convent (roll number 11883)

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Baldoyle, Co. Dublin
Teacher:
Sr Augustine
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0792, Page 158

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    nine thorns from a gooseberry bush and for (m) nine morning to point each thorn at the eye.
    Roasted salt put into a stocking and tied around the throut is a cure for a sore throut.
    An ivy leaf heated by the fire until it is soft is a cure for a corn. A cure for whooping cough is to be put three times over and under a donkeys back. My Father was cured by this when he was a little boy.
    I got this information from my Grand-mother
    Maire McGinn
    "Convilla"
    Kilbarrack.
    Sutton
    Co. Dublin.
    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
    Maire Mc Ginn
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilbarrack, Co. Dublin