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School: Roxboro, Luimneach (roll number 15680)

Location:
Roxborough, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Gheallagáin
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    Jaundice.
    Dig nine worms in the garden. Throw away eight and boil the other in a cupful of milk. Then get an ash leaf and boil it with the worm in the milk. Then drink the milk.
    Rheumatism.
    A cure for rheumatism is to boil ash leaves and drink the water.
    Sick Stomach.
    A cure for a sick stomach is to drink the water from Saint Dominic’s Blessed well in Rosbrien.
    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
    Jack Walsh
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Derrybeg, Co. Limerick