School: Lucan (B.)
- Location:
- Lucan, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: M. Mac Rois
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0794, Page 320
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- (continued from previous page)with water, and put over the sting.Boils:
A cure for boils is a poultice of bread and sunlight soap, and sugar softened with hot water.Chilblains:
A cure for a chillblain is to keep rubbing it hard with an onion and then hold it in front of the fire for as long as you can bear it.
- When a person has been running constantly for over ten minutes he may get pains around his heart which are often caused by wind. The cure for this is for the person to swing his left arm around in a circle.
- Collector
- Francis Rankin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Doddsborough, Co. Dublin
