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School: Robertson (roll number 12276)

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Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Liam Ó Morchadh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1084, Page 158

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    1) Donkeys milk is good for the whooping cough.
    2) A cure for the mumps is to be led to a well three days after one and other before sunset.
    3) Nettle soup is a very good cure for the measles
    4) A cure for warts is to find a snail and you not looking for one Rub it on the wart then fire it into a thorn bush and as the snail withers away your warts will get better.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Dobson
    Gender
    Male

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    The Doaken is a cure for a sting.
    Dandylion is a cure for a cut
    going under a donkey is a cure for the hooping cough
    steeped ivey is a cure for corns
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    1/ Dandalion soup is good for the heart.
    2/ People say that nettle soup is good for the measels.
    3/ The dockon is a cure for the sting of a nettle.
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