School: Killorglin (C.) (roll number 12833)

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0435, Page 171

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goose to anything swollen it would get better. 3. If you put salt into a cut it would prevent it from festering 4. To cure whooping cough, they used to boil a mouse and drink the soup. 5. To cure a tooth-ache, grind the head of the mouse with the tooth.
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1. Broom boiled and drawn like tea is a great drink for people who have kidney trouble.
2. Boiled dandelion water is a cure for stomach trouble.
3. The juice of marshmallow boiled is (c) good (fo) for a cough.
4. Boiled nettle-water is a cure for chest trouble and also a blood-making medicine.
5. Pond-Lily water used as a gargle for (sore) sore-throat.
6. Laundry blue is a good cure for a sting of a bee.

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