School: Díseart, Droichead Átha (roll number 1434)

Location:: Dysart, Co. Louth
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0672, Page 208

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Toothache The cure for toothache is to put Jeye's Fluid on cottom wool and put it into the tooth. Whooping Cough Give oaten bread to a donkey and the crumbs, he lets fall pick them up & eat them. Warts Rub washing soda on them or rub the water that cools the irons in a forge. Corns Rub iodine on them.
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Topics
1. activities
  medical practice
  folk medicine (~11,815)
Language

English
Collector
Marie Campbell
Gender

Female
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Leather water is good for warts.
Earache
Wadding for earache.
Scalds
Starch for scalds.

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Measles
Whiskey and Saffron is a cure for measles.
Thrush
Borax and honey is a cure for thrush.

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