School: St John's Girls, Cill Choinnigh (roll number 11163)
- Location:
- Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Giolla Bríde
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0856, Page 230
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- To cure chilblains.
Mix mustard and vinegar and apply.
To cure consumption.
Boil Our Lady's Ladder and drink juice.
To cure the mumps.
Boil marshmallows and drink juice.
To cure coated stomach.
Boil bluebinda and drink juice.
To cure burn.
Scoop raw potato and apply on scald.
To draw badness from a boil.
Rub turpentine over top of boil.
To cure chicken pox.
Boil wild roots of dock leaf set until turned like ointment then apply.
To cure declined person. Boil French fern and drink juice.
To cure boils
Sugar and soap and apply
To cure whooping cough.
Eat crumbs that fall from asses mouth when eating bread and run in and out three times for three days under his stomach.(continues on next page)
