School: San Leonard, Ballycullane
- Location:
- Saintleonards, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Mary B. Dunphy
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- (continued from previous page)7. Sprains
Vinegar mixed with bran make a cooling poultice for night. Chop up comfrey, mix with white of egg apply to sprain.
8. Scurvy } Drink lime water and eat green vegetables.
9. Boils } Poultice with sugar and soap.
10. Cuts } The youngest lancelot leaf of the dock contains a quantity of sticky matter. Put then this leaf, 'sticky side 'in' to the cut
11. Consumption } Eat dandelion -the flower to be -for its herbal milk.
12. Cuts } Chop penny leaves, boil with lard, strain . Ointment for cuts however deep.
13. To heal sores } Chop up laurel leaves, boil in fresh lard and some fresh butter Ointment for healing sores.
14. " Bright's disease" 'Parsley Tea' } Take a bunch of parsley, boil and draw. This is called 'Parsley Tea', a cure for "Bright's disease"
15. For Nettle Stings } Put spittle on a dock leaf and apply to blister-relieves the pain.
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