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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0794, Page 318

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    round the persons neck, as hot as they can bear and tie tightly: when the potatoes are cold the lumps will be gone.
    16. Boils
    You get an onion and roast it at the fire, and cut it up in rings. Then you put the rings in a piece of clean white cloth, and tie them over the boils, and after a long time the boils will burst and go.
    17. Whittle.
    You get a piece of fat bacon and get a poultice of bread and water. Then you put the bacon in the poultice and put them in a piece of white cloth and wrap it tightly round the whittle, and very soon it will be gone.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Christopher Baker
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    12
    Address
    Chapel Hill, Co. Dublin