School: Cloonmagunnane (roll number 13114)
- Location:
- Cloonmagunnaun, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: T. Rogers
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0238, Page 172
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- (continued from previous page)as the snail is dying the wart is withering. Another cure for warts is the water used in a forge to apply it to the warts or the water used in boiling potatoes to skim the top of it and apply it to the wart.
Whittles are cured by a poultice of white bread.
Boils are cured by applying a poultice of Linseed to ripen them and to draw the curruption and poison from them. Or to mix Treacle and Sulphor and eat it fasting for nine mornings.
Cancer is a very bad disease but there is an old man in Longford who has the cure of it.
To extract a thorn put a poultice of either wax or porridge on the affected part or to press a thimble over it and it will extract it.
A sprain may be cured by holding it to a running stream or by getting a spraining thread and tying it around the affected part.
