School: Oileán Mhuire (Lady's Island)
- Location:
- Lady's Island, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: G. Ó Murthuile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0878, Page 195
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6. The dandelion pounded, and the juice drunk cures consumption.
7. Long ago, when a person got a severe cut, he wrapped cobwebs round it to stop the bleeding.
8. Boiling potato-water is good for a gathering or a whitloe on the finger. The finger should be dipped in the water.
9. Blue-ball takes the pain out of a sting of a bee. The blue should be rubbed on the spot where the sting is.
10. There is a cure for weak eyes in camomile. The blossom is boiled and drawn like tea. The eyes are stuped with it when it is cold.
11. A sort of superstitious cure is, that if a person has a sty on his eye, he should get a thorn of a gooseberry bush, and point it three(continues on next page)
