School: Killmallock Convent School
- Location:
- Kilmallock, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: An tSr. Dimpna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0528, Page 273
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- (continued from previous page)16. Sprains cured by water in which potatoes were boiled.
17. A heated knitting - needle put into a hole in the tooth relieved a tooth - ache.
18. Washing soda dissolved in water and applied in strong solution cured ring - worm.
19. Cobwebs put in a cut stopped bleeding.
20. A cold stone or key put in the back of the neck stopped bleeding from the nose.
21. Measles were cured by giving sheeps saffern boiled in milk.
22. His - coughs cured by giving a fright.
23. Heart - burn by putting a pinch of bread - soda on the tongue.
24. Whooping - cough cured by mixing the white of an egg, barley sugar, vinegar, and whiskey together and taking a spoonful of mixture occasionally.
25. Some eyes cured by bathing in the water of certain wells.
26. Burnt leather mixed with lard and rubbed to the head restored a bald - head.
27. Boils were cured by a poultice of roast dock - leaves or pig dung.
28. A sore throat cured by a poultice of hot bran or hot salt.
29. The droppings of geese boiled in new milk unknown to invalied cured jaundice.
30. Blue bag applied to sting.
- Collector
- Maud Wingfield
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilmallock, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Mrs Keane
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Kilmallock, Co. Limerick
