School: Dromlohan, Kilcornan (roll number 15848)
- Location:
- Dromlohan, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Rebecca Nic Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0503, Page 451
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- Whooping Cough: (1) To drink the milk of a white mare.
(2) To eat the food left behind by a ferret.Erysipelas: A mixture of flour and camphor heated in the oven and applied to the part.Burns: A plaster made from white cabbage and bees wax. Melt the lard in a frying pan. Add to it the chopped bees wax and cabbage. Fry them all together for ten minutes and then strain off the liquid and leave to cool. This forma a plaster which can be applied in the usual way.Bloodpoison: Potatoes and fat bacon. Chop the potatoes very finely and fry in a pan with the fat meat. Strain off the liquid and apply to the poisoned part after bathing.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Thomas Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moig, Co. Limerick