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School: Butlerstown (Kilburne)

Location:
Butlerstown South, Co. Waterford
Teacher:
Seán Ó Flannagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0651, Page 34

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    Ireland is rich in herbs and weeds, both wild and from the garden or the field and She makes much use of them. "Hitherto, medicinal herbs have come down to us from early times as possessing only a merely empirical effects. But today a closer analysis in the laboratory and the skilled provings by experts have resolved the several parts, and have chemically determined the medicinal nature of these parts both singly and collectively. So that the study and practice of curative British Herbs may now fairly take rank as an exact science and may command the full confidence of the sick for supplying trustworthy aid in their times of
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Jackie Power
    Gender
    Unknown
    Address
    Butlerstown South, Co. Waterford