School: Flower Hill (roll number 12788)
- Location:
- Flower Hill, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Isabel Mc Quade
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0700, Page 312
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- XML “Blood”
- XML “Bleeding Nose”
- XML “A Boil”
- XML “Dirty Mouth”
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- Put a piece of fat bacon over a thorn and it will help to extract it.
- Sulphur and cream of tartar mixed with brown sugar or treacle is a good tonic to clear out children's blood in the spring time.
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- Informant
- Mrs Mc Allen
- Gender
- Female
- Mix ground sugar and yellow soap together and apply to a boil or gathering. It will help to draw the matter out and clean it.
- A girl who is born after her father's death has the natural cure for the dirty mouth in young(continues on next page)
