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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0821, Page 260

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    else put on that glove then he would get the warts.
    To cure boils or carbuncles people put on an oaten meal poultice. They put it to the boils or carbuncles when it was hot. You would put on the poultice in the morning and take it off at night and it would cure it in three or four days. Sugar and soap were made up fine, mixed together, put on a piece of brown paper and applied to the boil or carbuncle. This would take the soreness out of it and it would wear away in three or four days. Long ago the people use to stop a cut from bleeding by getting a cobweb and putting it on the cut.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bessie Noblett
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Fortel, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Patrick Mc Donnell
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    48