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School: Shinrone (B.)

Location:
Shinrone, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
William Mac Mahon
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0819, Page 022

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    Chilblains
    1. Walk out in the frost in your bare feet.
    2. Rub them with paraffin oil.
    3. Get a basin full of hot water, put a handful of washing soda in it and get a cloth and steep your feet.
    Flu
    1. Get a bottle of lemonade and boil it and drink it as hot as you can.
    2. Get some goose grease and rub it on your chest.
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      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
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    Warts
    1. Cure burn them with caustic (soda).
    2. When you get up in the morning, spit on a flag and rub it on the warts.
    Wildfire
    Rub wet ashed on it at night.
    Cold
    1. Get brook-line and dandelion, ground ivy and a few leaves off the white-thorn bush and a bit of hoar hound. They have all to
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