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School: Mercy Convent, Baile Mathúna (roll number 3865)

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Ballymahon, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Sr. M. Clement
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    Warts. People used to get up early in the morning and get a black snap and rub it on the wart and hang it on a thorny tree and let it die and when the snail was dead the wart was gone.
    Sties. Long ago people used to get nine gooseberry thorns an point them at the sty and thrown them over their right shoulder, then the sty would go.
    Jaundice. People used to boil loaf bread and milk and let a ferret eat some of it and what ever he left, the patient had to eat, and it would cure the jaundice.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Pauline Kearns
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballymulvey, Co. Longford
    Informant
    Patrick Kearns
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballymulvey, Co. Longford