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School: Ballyadams (roll number 894)

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Ballyadams, Co. Laois
Teacher:
P. Ó Bruadair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0836, Page 085

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0836, Page 085

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    festering and is an excellent healer.
    Bran and vinegar is put on a sprain.
    Pepper and mustard is good for a toothache.
    A prod of a gooseberry thorn is a cure for a sty on the eye.
    A ferrets leavings is a cure for the whooping cough.
    Rub a snail on a wart then hang it on a thorn and by the time the snail is dead the wart will be gone.
    Another cure for a wart is to get to an elder tree and rub a growing leaf on the wart without pulling it.
    Double the leaf and put a crease in it. By the time the leaf is dead the wart will have gone.
    Spanish onions rubbed on chillblains is good.
    Bread soda and buttermilk is a cure for a bad burn.
    Loaf bread and boiling water is a cure for a festered hand.
    Soap and sugar is a cure for a boil.
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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
    Séamas O Broin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Corbally, Co. Laois