School: Taney, Dundrum
- Location:
- Dún Droma, Co. Bhaile Átha Cliath
- Teacher: E. Costello
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- (continued from previous page)When the cut is washed dip it straight into a bowl of buttermilk and wrap it up immediately.
4. A cure for rheumatism is to drink a lot of seawater.
5. A cure for an ear ache is to heat a spoonful of olive oil and when it is hot to put a piece of cotton wool with the hot olive oil straight into the ear.
- The cure for boils is hot stale porter and bread put them on a cloth and put them on the boil.
- Collector
- Esme Munn
- Gender
- Female
- If you had a pain in your head you should put vinegar on a piece of cloth and put it round the person's head and it will soon go.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Iris Allison
- Gender
- Female
- 1 A cure for a sore throat is to paint it with Iodine or to gargle it with salt and water.
2 If a person's nose is bleeding get a cloth wet it with water keep it up to the person's nose - Collector
- Alfred Tracey
- Gender
- Male
