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School: Kilnagross (roll number 12317)

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Kilnagross, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
John Hunt
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0208, Page 440

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    IF a person has itch on his face or on his body if he rub washing-soda or bluestone on it and wet it with soft water the itch will go away.
    A cure for a scald is to hold it to the heat until it would go away.
    Sometimes the people used to make medicine out of soot and give it to a person that had a pain in his stomach and it used to cure him. If a person has blood poison and if he put the poison part in hot water which he can leave for half an hour it will take away the blood poison.
    A cure for a cut is to put dry moss to it, it will stop the bleeding.
    If a person got a scald and if he put paraffin oil on it it would not get swollen.
    If a person is fainting and if the people of the house rub whiskey of his mouth and forehead he would recover.
    A cure for a headache is to take ? and dip a band in soft water and tie it across the head.
    A cure for a burn is to make a cure out of olive-oil and lime water and the white of an egg. If the burn was only very slight such
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie Mc Manus
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Corderry (Peyton), Co. Leitrim
    Collector
    Annie Reilly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Annaghkeenty, Co. Leitrim
    Collector
    Annie Tighe
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Corderry (Peyton), Co. Leitrim
    Collector
    Kathleen Casey
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Corderry, Co. Leitrim
    Collector
    Mary Gaffney
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lisdromarea North, Co. Leitrim
    Collector
    Monica O Hara
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Millpark, Co. Leitrim
    Collector
    Rose A. Banaghan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Drumgowla, Co. Leitrim