School: Baldoyle Convent (roll number 11883)
- Location:
- Baldoyle, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Sr Augustine
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- (continued from previous page)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
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