School: Dungourney (roll number 3501)
- Location:
- Dungourney, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Rignigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0387, Page 231
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- (continued from previous page)Chilblains : Rub on paraffin oil.
Chapped hands : Boil the bark of the oak tree and apply water to the hands.
Sore throat : Put a thin slice of fat bacon to throat when going to bed.
Inward pain : Put a hot plate to painful part.
Wasp's sting : Put a blue-bag to part.
Nettle's sting : Apply a dock-leaf.
Bleeding from nose : Put a key down the back and lie down.
Ear-ache : Apply olive oil.
Flea in ear : Pour hot water into the ear.
Neuralgia : Take a drop of whiskey, going to bed.
Whooping Cough : Put person under female donkey.
- Collector
- Kathleen Colbert
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Informant
- Mr Michael Colbert
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathcanning, Co. Cork
