School: Baile an Londraigh (B.) (roll number 14305)

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   Blood-poisoning (continued): Get a two-penny box of Venice Turpentine or better still get some fresh from a chemist. Put a little of it on to the inside of the turpentine box. Mix a pinch of flour through it with the end of a match. Apply to a clean cloth, heat a little and place on sore. Repeat in four hours, and repeat again and again at same intervals and you will find the awful throbbing pain easing, going away, and the blue lump will have disappeared.
   This remedy has brought patients back from the doors of death when all hopes were given up by doctors, priests and rfriends. It is able to pull the poison back and to prevent it from travelling through the system to the heart.

   Kidney-Trouble: When you notice a person who is generally in good health, become listless, the appetite failing, under the eyes puffed, and the complexion sallow, it is a sure sign that the uric acid is not getting away from the organs and that that person is on the brink of a break-down

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   John Foley

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ringville, Co. Waterford

   Informant

   Mrs John Power

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ballylanders, Co. Limerick

   Informant

   Mrs Murphy

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Cullane, Co. Limerick