School: Scairt (C.), Cill Dairbhe (roll number 4127)
- Location:
- Scart, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Mrs R. Eager
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- (continued from previous page)They gathered dandelions and boiled them and strained the liquid into a bottle. Some of this was drunk every morning to give strength.
The marrow of a bone was used to cure a boil. An old fashioned cure for a boil, is to take one or two drops of spirits of turpentine upon a lump of sugar every morning before breakfast for ten days. Then at intervals of four mornings a month, for about a month. - On some farms a certain weed is harmful and on other farms it is quite a different weed does the damage just according to kind of the soil. A "bucallan" is not harmful on some farms, but on others it is quite the opposite.
A dock-leaf is harmful(continues on next page)