School: Faythe (roll number 11361)
- Teacher: An tSr. Columcille
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- (continued from previous page)5) Another cure for warts is to get a raw potato and bore a hole in the centre and fill it up with salt and rub it on the warts every morning.6) My Sister cured her warts by rubbing them with a fasting spit nine mornings in succession.7) If a person happens to come upon a rusty pool of water on a rock and dips his or her warts in it they will rot away.8) To rub the juice of a dandelion on the warts is another very good cure which is commonly used.The Whooping- cough
may be cured by mashing about ten snails in muslin and then hanging them over a saucer of Demerara sugar until the mixture becomes like syrup. This may be given as a medicine to the patient, a spoonful each half hour being sufficient. I myself was cured by this mixture and it is commonly used.2) My Granny says the whooping cough may be cured by walking the sick child under(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Fenelon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Maudlintown, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Mr Kealing
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Maudlintown, Co. Wexford
