School: Sonna (roll number 1422)
- Location:
- Kildallan, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs O' Connell
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- (continued from previous page)in its place by a bandage. Use a fresh ivy leaf every day - it takes a long time - perhaps a week or a month - but the corn will then come away.
Soft corns. Use prepared chalk or flour adding cotton wool to keep the chalk in place.
Stick. A red cabbage leaf - placed against the ribs next the skin cures a stitch in the side.
Blistered skin. A white cabbage leaf heals a blistered skin.
Goitre. The leaves or seeds of a plant known locally as the shepherd's pole - boiled in new milk and drank will cure it.
Rheumatism. To carry a potato in the pocket will give relief.
To be thrown by some one into a clump of nettles will cure it.
Piles. To carry a horsechestnut in the pocket will prevent and cure them.
Itch - nettle rash - pimples - sores - or breakings out. Nettles boiled will cure these blood disorders.
Scruf. Southerwood, also called Motherwood. A tea(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kate Donegan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Sonna Demesne, Co. Westmeath
