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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0488, Page 207

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    a spoon over a candle and damp a piece of wool in that, and then put it into your ear. The pain will go immediately.
    Boils:- Mix some castor sugar and lifebuoy soap together and apply it to the boil. The boil will be healed in three days.
    A burn:- If a person gets a burn the best cure for it is to mix the white of an egg and honey and apply it to the burn. The burn will be healed in two days.
    Welts:- Bath the welts three times a day for a week and it is said that the welts will be healed, and will not come again for a certain amount of years.
    Sore eyes:- Go to a Blessed well in your locality and get some of the spring water and rub it to the eyes
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Edward O Sullivan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Newcastle, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Mrs Hannah Murphy
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    72
    Address
    Newcastle, Co. Limerick