School: Yellow Furze
- Location:
- Yellow Furze, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Síle, Bean Uí Leamhain
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- Boils. Mix an equal quantity of soap and sugar.Burns. Common tan spread on brown paper.Chopped Hands. Wash in water in which mutton-suet was dissolved.Chilblains. Poultice with roasted onions or onions.Deafness. Insert a few drops of onion juice into the ear a few times a day.Pain in the ear. Put a roasted onion to it as hot as can be borne.Sore Eyes. Pound some dwarf ivy sprinkled with water. Put into a thin cloth press out the juice and bottle it. Dress the eyes 2 or three times a day with this.Hiccough. Take 30 drops of the spirit of hartshorn in a glass of cold water.Lumbago. Bruise onions and apply them as a poultice Consumption. Gather the blossoms.(continues on next page)
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