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School: Dangan (roll number 7352)

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Dangan (King), Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Thomas O' Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0254, Page 343

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    Herbs
    Nettles = Taken all the poison of the blood, if cooked like cabbage and taken in the Spring time.
    Chicken weed = Cure for swellings if mashed together and put on the effected part like a plaster.
    Garlick = Cure for a cough, when boiled in new milk and taken nine nights in succession.
    yvy = Cure for lung disease, when put down on the fire, and drew like tea.
    Dandelion = Cure for stomach trouble, if boiled in new milk.
    Burdock = Cure for a cut, when the juice of the leave is put into the cut.
    Mullin plant = Cure for decline, if cooked like cabbage.
    Cumfrey plant = Cure for broken bones, if root of the cumfrey plant is mashed together and put on the effected part like a plaster.
    Flaxseed = This seed is boiled for about two hours, then it is mixed with milk and taken for coughs.
    Primrose leave = This leave is supposed to cure a burn
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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
    Delia Byrne
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Carrowmore, Co. Roscommon