School: Dangan (roll number 7352)
- Location:
- Dangan (King), Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Thomas O' Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0254, Page 313
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- (continued from previous page)while the snail is decaying the wart will also be decaying.
Cure for an earache:- Black wool and olive oil or wool and whiskey.
Cure for Itch:- The seventh son of a family to touch it. Leave it uncovered.
Cure for Boils:- Put on the boils a poultice of linseed hot or loaf bread.
Cure for cuts:- Put a cobweb or rib grass to them.
Cure for a swelling:- Put on the swelling a poultice of chickenweed.
Cure for a cough:- Drink boiled buttermilk and garlic before going to bed.
Whooping Cough:- Take Ferrits leaings.
Cure for chilblains:- Boil the bark of an oak tree and bathe chilblains in it.
- Collector
- Dolly Stritch
- Gender
- Female
