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School: Dromlohan, Kilcornan (roll number 15848)

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Dromlohan, Co. Limerick
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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.
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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
    Thomas Lynch
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Moig, Co. Limerick