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School: Convent of Mercy, An Pasáiste, Corcaigh

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0390, Page 198

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    dry, add a small peice butter, this served for a week ought cure irritation in the blood. If the leaves are boiled with out salt, the water may be used to bathe a sore or abscess and it will help the healing. An ointment may be made of the water in which nettles have been stewed, let it be a very strong decocation; use as a fomentation on any inflamed joint or rheumatic trouble, and relief will be given.

    Dock leaves
    A dock-leaf well washed may be laid on any painful sore, and will give ease. While the root of the docks if boiled in vinegar and used as a lotion will cure many kinds of skin irritation.

    Wormwood
    Get an ounce of dried wormwood
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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
    Helen Hyde
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Passage West, Co. Cork