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School: Dungourney (roll number 3501)

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Dungourney, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Rignigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0387, Page 249

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    Warts: To find a snail without looking for it, and make sign of Cross three times on it, and put on white thorn tree.
    Measles: Drink ferret's milk.
    Neuralgia: Drink water of boiled dandelion.
    Flea in ear: Rest ear that flea is not in, and pour in tepid water in other.
    Earache: Poor in heated whiskey.
    Bleeding from nose: Put a key down your back and lie down.
    Broken bone: Apply a bit of calico soaked in pickle.
    Bite of dog: Apple a lighting match.
    Nettle's sting: Put a dock leaf round it.
    Wasp's sting: Rub a blue bag to it.
    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
    Nora Barry
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    15
    Address
    Dungourney, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Mrs Geary
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Dungourney, Co. Cork