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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 028

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    Warts
    Get a snail and rub it on the wart three times and hang it on a goose berry bush and when the snail dies the warts will go away.
    Sore eyes
    To bathe them with strong tea every morning and every night
    A pain in your stomach
    A cup of water and a spoon full of bread soda and drink it.
    Sore lips
    Get a bottle of glycerene and rub it on your lip every night going to bed.
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    A cure for a sty in your eye
    (1) Get a gold ring and put it to the eye three times in the sign of the cross.
    (2) To put the point of ten gooseberry thorns to the eye in the sign if the cross.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English