School: Glasthule (St Joseph's Boys)
- Location:
- Glasthule, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: P. Ó Cuinneáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0796, Page 200
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- Every district in Ireland has its own cures, outside those of the chemists. In some cases they prove very effective. Some of these cures are very old and some are not so old.If one gets a cut from rusty, barbed wire, it is cured by rubbing sulphur from a match, on it.Warts are disposed of by putting the juice of the dandelion on them.The infection with which people long ago suffered most from were boils, so then the country must teem with cures for them. To draw a boil fill a bottle with hot water. Then pour it out quickly and while the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Caoimhín Ó Cuinneáin
- Gender
- Male
