School: Johnstown (roll number 877)
- Location:
- Johnstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Miss H.C. Hickie
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0687, Page 087
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- Local Cures collection from Miss NeillWhillow: scum of buttermilk and fine oatmeal made into a paste and applied as poultice Whopping cough: Leaf of certain Thistle boiled in new milk Mumps : Walk the patient around a big pigsty three times Worms: Bansy boiled in new new milk and given to the patient Sty: Get 9 gooseberry thorns point 8 of them at the sty and throw away the 9th one you left should Blood:
(1) 3 Feeds of boiled nettles in the early summer is supposed to be an excellent tonic. The leaves are boiled like cabbage and prepared for consumption in the same wa. (2)Another home made blood purifies and made used in this distant is ; cream of tartan
sulphur
treack mixed into a syrup. The whole family takes a spoonful of this mixture, It prevents boils, pimples and all skin blemishes
- Informant
- Miss Neill
- Gender
- Female
