School: Shinrone (B.)
- Location:
- Shinrone, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: William Mac Mahon
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- Chilblains
1. Walk out in the frost in your bare feet.
2. Rub them with paraffin oil.
3. Get a basin full of hot water, put a handful of washing soda in it and get a cloth and steep your feet.Flu
1. Get a bottle of lemonade and boil it and drink it as hot as you can.
2. Get some goose grease and rub it on your chest. - Warts
1. Cure burn them with caustic (soda).
2. When you get up in the morning, spit on a flag and rub it on the warts.Wildfire
Rub wet ashed on it at night.Cold
1. Get brook-line and dandelion, ground ivy and a few leaves off the white-thorn bush and a bit of hoar hound. They have all to(continues on next page)